Chap 13, TMoP, cont.

[Mark Kohut]

p. 171--The Finn says she is hungry. a universal meaning of poverty. "let them eat cake", etc.  [See Chekhov story about the hungry peasant with his nose at a restaurant window.]

Matronya, natural innocent, brings bread. "One must be as a child, to enter
the kingdom of God." Very ideal Christlike image by Coetzee?...again, a Grand Inquisitor speech allusion?

And Anna scolds for drawing Matronya into affairs which should not concern her...of violating her innocence, so to speak?