...Auerbach thinks it possible that William Bankes actually speaks the line over the telephone to Mrs Ramsay, 'Nature has but little clay . . . like that of which she moulded you' (Auerbach, p. 5o). But Auerbach's uncertainty on this point is mistaken: William Bankes does not speak...

...to have joined hands in meadows of asphodel to compose [Mrs. Ramsay's] face," pontificates to her, " 'Nature has but little clay . . . like that of which she moulded you'" (46-47). And the alienated Lily, following Andrew's advice to '"think of a kitchen table . . . when...