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Nothing would have happened to other people - that was certain. But what made Mrs Yepanchin so different from anybody else was that because of her inherent anxiety, she managed to discover in the combination and confused interplay of the most ordinary things something that sometimes alarmed her till it made her ill, and threw her into a most morbid and inexplicable panic, a panic that for that very reason was so distressing. What must have been her feelings now when, through this confused tangle of absurd and groundless anxieties, she could actually discern something that really seemed important, something that really justified all her anxieties, doubts, and suspicions!

This post is dedicated to the morbidly shy (and their mothers).