"Maisie Johnson positively felt she must cry Oh! (For that young man on the seat had given her quite a turn. Something was up, she knew.) Horror! horror! She wanted to cry. (She had left her people; they had warned her what would happen.)" (27)
"Horror! horror! is a reference to Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. In The Heart of Darkness Kurtz exclaims these words before he dies. He means that humanity is horrable. The Regent's Park is not what it used to be and the people there unusual. Maisie Johnson refrences Heart of Darkness, because she is startled by an odd man and realizes that humanity is cruel.
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