You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

• 你做出的每一个动作，只要不在黑地里，都有人仔细审视。习惯是能够变成本能的；从这个意义上讲，人们早这样生活啦。