Mrs. Dalloway: The Original 1925 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Virginia Woolf Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

Maisie Johnson positively felt she must cry Oh! (for that young man on the seat had given her quite a turn. Something was up, she knew.) Horror! horror! she wanted to cry. (She had left her people; they had warned her what would happen.)

so dramatic

“I will tell you the time,” said Septimus, very slowly, very drowsily, smiling mysteriously. As he sat smiling at the dead man in the grey suit the quarter struck—the quarter to twelve.

I simply cannot take someone named Seventh seriously