have you come back . i thought that no one had come back....?only me ...what does this sentence means in the lesson address ?
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The Address revolves around War. Maybe the narrator was a Jew who went into hiding with her mother and left their belongings with Mrs. Dorling. Or maybe circumstances just compelled them to leave that place.
So when Mrs Dorling asks -"Have you come back? I thought no one had come back", she basically thought that the narrator and her mother had died. And she wasn't surprised but shocked to see that the narrator was indeed back. She never wished for them to return and never was her intention to return back the things that were given to her for safekeeping by narrator's mother.
And when the narrator says-"Only me", she means that her mother hadn't survived war.
So when Mrs Dorling asks -"Have you come back? I thought no one had come back", she basically thought that the narrator and her mother had died. And she wasn't surprised but shocked to see that the narrator was indeed back. She never wished for them to return and never was her intention to return back the things that were given to her for safekeeping by narrator's mother.
And when the narrator says-"Only me", she means that her mother hadn't survived war.
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