Who says the following and why? "i tell you this—bear it in mind, you must— when you reach your homeland steer your ship into port in secret, never out in the open . . the time for trusting women's gone forever! " *

When they reached the door of the lonely house and stopped to unlock it, and the cat came to purr loudly, and rub against them, a deserted p***y, indeed, but fat with young robins, sylvia whispered that this was a beautiful place to live in, and she never should wish to go home. the description of the house in this excerpt gives an example of