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visits these ladies, but she describes what it is like to sit with them in the room, and the somber dynamic between them. She thinks they must be sisters whose lives have unravelled so far that they grimly await salvation or death. The girl changes from wishing death on the eldest sister to liking her as the story progresses. One of the sisters receives a bundle of letters from a man one evening which she thinks must be a former lover, and the young girl is filled with hatred that she might be left alone that way.
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are death and isolation. Throughout the novel, the narrator examines the figures across the street from her and contemplates their lives and how they will die. This includes descriptions of these women committing suicide and even desires to murder them. Many times Lange’s writing, she seems scared of
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When she gets back home, she notices the drawing-room across the street is dark. She asks her family if anyone in the neighborhood has died, but they reassure her that no one died. Distraught that her family seems ignorant to this grand change in the one thing that has consumed her life for the past
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for four days to clear her head. She is concerned she will miss something important across the street while she is gone, but realizes it could be an adventure to leave for a while and see what it is like when she returns. Her unhealthy obsession begins to relax a bit during her time out of town.
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begins filling much of her free time secretly observing three mysterious women in the house across the street. From her house, she can see the women sitting in their drawing-room. Fixated on these women, she searches their faces, imagining the stories of their lives.
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months, she mourns. The book ends with a suggestion that the sisters moved out and put the home up for rent.
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