The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself tha...
Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.
Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.
What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.