Rachael could hear only the gusty breeze humming in the fine-mesh screen of the open kitchen window, sighing through the deep eaves under the overhanging slate roof.
When an image or metaphor rang true for me, it proved only that i shared with the author a set of definitions, a culturally sanctioned list of word associations. A single oil lamp that hung over the stairs lit the hall.
We can now understand how this great disaster, coming suddenly at the close of ten years of domestic happiness, might well have been the death of bettina mignon, again separated from her husband and ignorant of his fate,--to her as adventurous and perilous as the exile to siberia.