Book 3, Chapter 7: The End of a Fixed Idea

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​⁠She couldn't of course have missed a thing as plain as that but for a complete preoccupation of thought and feeling that would have left her oblivious to almost anything that could happen to her. Galbraith himself had detected this preoccupation, but he would have been staggered had he known its intensity. He had likened it in his own thoughts, to an effect that might have been caused by the prese