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They stood in the morning sunlight, looking at each other, and from her mother’s face Anne learned, in another lesson, that the grown-up world was not what she had thought it was, not a place of power and fulfilment, but a place of helplessness, pain and ugliness. A world not to enter. Until now, Anne had run joyfully forward; but now she was halted. She shrank back. She had learned suspicion and distrust, and most of all the fear of life that sickens the youthful heart and from which it takes too long to recover, if recover it does.