And suppose, suppose, only suppose, that in the darkness and in the night and all alone and under the trees, suppose that here, together, without anyone ever to know, without even so much as a warning, suppose in the darkness under the trees . . . “I want to die,” Elizabeth said.
The way Shirley Jackson worded this to describe the daunting feeling of wanting to die though not wanting to admit it. The fact that in Natalie's entire life she's always had other people's emotions at the forefront.
