The Sun Between Their Feet (79 page)

Fed, he again backed himself against the wall, squatted on the bed, and looked at the door where his jailers would enter: he had not really understood he was at home.

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Previously published in paperback by
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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 1973

Copyright © Doris Lessing 1954, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1972, 1973
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