spoke and listened to myself at length as I watched the dark shapes move under the thinning ice. I cannot say whether I was ever overheard while I occupied myself in this way: if I had been, it would have been only one behaviour among many others, truthfully or falsely reported, that would later be held against me.
Narrator talks to herself she does ot speak the language of the natives and is ostracized because of it she is also ant semitic
