Quotes.

Duror:

Page 11
"When he was sure they were too far in front to hear him he came out from the pines. For a minute or two he stood beside the rabbit, pitying it not for its terror or pain or nearness to death, but for having so recently been the victim of the hunchback's drivelling sorrow".

Page 12
"The only window was not in the wall facing him, so that he cold not see inside; but he had been in their hut so often, they were in his imagination so vividly, and he was so close every sound they made could be interpreted; therefore it was easy for him to picture them as they went about making their meal".

Page 13
"Yet, though he was going home, he felt was leaving behind him in that hut something unresolved, which would never cease to torment him".


Neil & Callum:

Page 12
"They did not wash before they started to cook or eat. They did not change their clothes. They had no table; an upturned box done instead, with a newspaper for a cloth; and each sat in his own bed. They seldom spoke".