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Response to: "But what I knew then was that nobody - not even my mother - was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface." (Pg. 36) When Dunstan borrowed an egg and was not able to explain why he took it, his mother gave him a beating. He always thought his mother to be very helpful and understandable but he was wrong. Upon being caught for taking that egg, he did not want to tell her that it was for magic. He thought it to be a violation of his privacy and that it was none of her business. However, she thought that every business was her business. He underestimated her. She is one of those women who wi