Inevitably I followed the straight path, obediently, law-abidingly. For me, the decision had involved self-questioning and self-doubt. Everyone else, looking on, saw the working-out of predestination, like watching from above as the young woman made her way through the twists and turns of the labyrinth’s single corridor. We feel that we are deliberating between equal possibilities, while people wait for us to make the choice they know we will make.
