Philip understood suddenly that the old man was frightened of dying.

It had been much easier to long for women she couldn't have, she understood suddenly.

He glanced over his shoulder and understood suddenly.

He understood suddenly, he ceased to struggle.

But I understood suddenly, and for the first time, how very much like one I might look.

That was the bargain, Bellis understood suddenly.

I understood suddenly why I loved him so, this tall, gray man with the delicate, almost grotesque, mannerisms.

Creatinine, he understood suddenly, was an element in blood that indicated how well a patient's kidneys were functioning.

We understood suddenly that "Government" was indicated.

He was on the edge of refusing when he saw Mori watching him and understood suddenly what it all was.

Neither was she old, and Saffy understood suddenly-thoughsurely she had known it before?-thatthere was something, someplace, in between.

He thought, "If I were not drunk, I would never have understood suddenly that look in her eyes."

Things that he had never understood suddenly made perfect sense-therelationship between good and evil, between men and loci and Glories.

I understood suddenly that this was a woman who had done real fighting, against people who'd been trying to kill her.

I never dreamed of anything as good as that. Fern understood suddenly why in all her mother's fury there had been a note of triumph.

"They're on whatever side has silver and gold," he said, and I understood suddenly why my father had not opposed my marriage with Nakhtmin.