Packet I: Tossup 3

A man observes that this character has “that gift still; to be; to exist” at an event where this character reunites with an old friend who repeatedly brags about her “five enormous boys.” That man wonders, (10[1]-5[1])“What is this terror? What is this ecstasy?” a moment before seeing this character and realizing (-5[1])“For there she was.” (10[1])This character (-5[1])watches an (10[1])old lady go to bed as the clock strikes three (10[1])and feels a connection to a man who had been treated by the psychiatrist (10[1])Sir (-5[1])William Bradshaw. (10[2]-5[1])The most (10[1])exquisite moment (10[3])of this (10[1])character’s (10[1])life (10[1])occurs (10[4])when a (10[1])classmate (10[2])at Bourton (10[1])kisses her. (10[4]-5[1])Peter Walsh (10[3])and (10[2])Sally Seton (10[3])gossip (10[1])at a party hosted (10[1])by this character (10[3])on the same day as Septimus Smith’s (10[1])suicide. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])name this title character (10[2])who goes (10[1])to “buy (10[1])the flowers herself” in a Virginia Woolf (10[1])novel. (10[2])■END■ (10[9]0[4])

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