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TO THE LIGHTHOUSEA shadow was on the page; she looked up. Itwas Augustus Carmichael shuffling past, pre-cisely now, at the very moment when it was painfulto be reminded of the inadequacy of humanrelationships, that the most perfect was flawed,and could not bear the examination which, lovingher husband, with her instinct for truth, sheturned upon it; HB: Blue pencil mark possibly indicating page break in the American edition.when it was painful to feel herselfconvicted of unworthiness, and impeded in herproper function by these lies, these exaggerations,—it was at this moment when she was frettedthus ignobly in the wake of her exaltation, thatMr. Carmichael shuffled past, in his yellowslippers, and some demon in her made it necessaryfor her to call out, as he passed,“Going indoors, Mr. Carmichael?”8He said nothing. He took opium. Thechildren said he had stained his beard yellow withit. Perhaps. What was obvious to her was thatthe poor man suffered,[%]was unhappy, came tothem every year as an escape; and yet every year,she felt the same thing; he did not trust her.She said, "I am going to the town. Shall I getyou stamps, paper, tobacco?" and she felt himwince. He did not trust her. It was his wife's66
