How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
If this is a painful memory, forgive me. But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse, looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there. (3.11)
Sometimes an image will send Stevens down memory lane; this one is from Miss Kenton.
Quote #5
In fact, now that I come to think of it, I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room. (3.103)
In the process of remembering, Stevens finds that he is sometimes mistaken about the actual date or circumstances in which a particular event has occurred, or who said what when.
Quote #6
[…] a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist. These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. (3.184)
Stevens spends some time considering the time period, particularly the general mood of the years leading up to World War II. Here he remembers that it was possible to be critical of the Versailles treaty without being branded a Nazi.