
You play Rachel Vinrace, nineteen, sailing out of London on your father's ship, the Euphrosyne, toward Santa Marina. Your aunt Helen wants to know what leaving England will change in you; your father turns every question into cargo talk. Near midnight, in a rising storm, a launch draws alongside: Richard and Clarissa Dalloway climb aboard, soaked and unannounced. Clarissa pauses by the untouched piano and asks what you will play once the sea settles.
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