The ques The young woman drew her head in. She went into the coupe and sat down. Out of the window,
on the other side, there was nothing: sand and bush; a thorn tree. Back through the open
doorway, past the figure of her husband in the corridor, the was the station, the voices, wooden
animals waving, running feet. Her eye followed the funny little valance of scrolled wood that
outlined the chalet roof of the station: she thought of the lion and smiled. That bit of fur round
the neck. But the wooden buck, the hippos, the elephants, the baskets that already bulked out
of their brown paper under the seat on the luggage rack! How will they look at home? Where
will you put them? What will they mean away from the places you found them? Away from the
unreality of the last few weeks? The young man outside. But he is not part of the unreality; he
is for good now. Odd... somewhere there was an idea that he, that living with him, was part of
the holiday, the strange places,
From "The Train from Rhodesia" by Nadine Gordimer
1. List three quotes from the passage above where the writer is using descriptive language.