threatened-with-death

Updated: May 6, 2025

Here in this womanless region, in this fortress, in this room, night after night, month after month, the commandant and his officers had sat at table; in this room, which, unlike the tomb, had held only the living, while the dead and the threatened-with-death inhabited the earth above. They had finished dinner and Monsieur Dellahousse signalled to Fanny that she might rise.

Enid Bagnold - The Happy Foreigner