The image of Linda Fox in Herb Asher’s mind continued to undergo a dismal transformation; he envisioned her as gross and bad-complexioned, a flabby thing that ate too much and wandered about aimlessly, and he realized, then, that this was the view of the accuser; the goat-creature was Linda Fox’s accuser who showed her—who showed everything in creation—under the worst light possible, under the aspect of the ugly.
