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TO THE LIGHTHOUSEyoung man," Charles Tansley. Tansley had hadto go in and write his dissertation, he said.

“James will have to write his dissertation one ofthese days," he added ironically, flicking his sprig.

Hating his father, James brushed away thetickling spray with which in a manner peculiar tohim, compound of severity and humour, he teasedhis youngest son’s bare leg.

She was trying to get these tiresome stockingsfinished to send to Sorley’s little boy tomorrow, saidMrs. Ramsay.

There wasn’t the slightest possible chance thatthey could go to the Lighthouse tomorrow, Mr.Ramsay snapped out irascibly.

How did he know? she asked. The wind oftenchanged.

The extraordinary irrationality of her remark,the folly of women’s minds enraged him. He hadridden through the valley of death, been shat-tered and shivered; and now, she flew in the faceof facts, made his children hope what was utterlyout of the question, in effect, told lies. He stampedhis foot on the stone step. "Damn you," he said.But what had she said? Simply that it might be finetomorrow. So it might.

Not with the barometer falling and the wind duewest.50