His days at the villa had loosened his body and freed his tenseness […]

By presenting herself as frightened by the dangerous creature animated by the children, the caregiver legitimates the symbolic transformations proposed by Mattia and riccardo (the hair-grip as a crocodile or a shark) and remarks the nonliteral use of objects.

to run a line

[I]n true marriage lies / Nor equal, nor unequal: each fulfils / Defect in each, and always thought in thought, / Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, / The single pure and perfect animal, / The two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke / Life.