Passing
"Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a *****?" What is the speaker's conclusion?
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From the text:
"No," she concludes after some time, "the woman sitting there staring couldn't possibly know" because a light-skinned woman like herself was usually mistaken "for an Italian, a Spaniard, a Mexican, or a gipsy."
Passing