Why did Sophie walk by the canal after dark on evening? How did she conduct herself that time?

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According to Sophie what was the perfect place for a meeting of this kind? Describe the place and the meeting.

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What was Sophie’s height of fantasizing as a teenager?

After her meeting with Danny Casey, Sophie told brother Geoff about the date for an autograph next week. So Sophie walked by the canal along a sheltered path after dark. It was the place where she had often played in her childhood. There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary tree. There lovers came sometimes. She sat down on the bench to wait (for her love Danny Casey). She had always thought it to be the ‘perfect place’ for a meeting of lovers. For those who wished not to be observed.

It was now after waiting for a while, she imagined his coming. She looked along the canal. She saw him coming out of the shadows. She imagined her excitement so caused. After sometime she began thinking of his not coming.

There she sat wishing Danny Casey would come, but he did not come, She felt the pain of doubt moving in her mind. She watched for him but there was no sign of him. She remembered Geoff saying he would never come and also none of them believed her. It made her sad she could not prove them wrong on doubting her.

Now she had become sad. Thus burden of sitting there, waiting and knowing he would not come, was hard to carry. She could see the future and how she would have to live with this burden. She slowly climbed the crumbling steps to the street to go home. Her fantasizing came to a stand still.

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