"She did not hear this very well. Her heart was troubled by a kind of terror. The fact that she was alone, away from home, rushing into a great sea of life and endeavor, began to tell.
She could not help but feel a little choked for breath － a little sick as her heart beat so fast. She half closed her eyes and tried to think it was nothing, that Columbia City (in my case, Taipei City) was only a little way off."
