'They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But still...'
'Everybody pretends,' Marya was thinking...

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One can drift like that for a long time, she found, carefully hiding the fact that this wasn't what one had expected of life. Not in the very least. (p16)

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