without the feeling of braving it out , with various degrees of optimism and pessimism for themselves , and all-other : 'at least she went knowing and her-tormentors also knowing , whether caring or not of this attempted rape , if not- real ... she would be known at tand that the world would know of her and her cause and her people and perhaps , that she would be rescued ... now ... saved ... a querying gaze looking up , almost absent-mindedly , until after the event the-clerk : 'trade-ins ?