在她有自己的孩子之前，她一直无法考虑父母的死亡。当主题出现时，在谈话或自己的想象中，她只说：我只是不知道我会做什么。
(Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.)