Read the following excerpt from Chapter 1 to answer Question 9.
All sounds, any movement went into him, filled his eyes, ears, mind so that he became part of it, and it was then that he noted the change.
A new coolness, a touch, a soft kiss on his cheek. It was the same air, the same sun, the same morning, but it was different, so changed that he stopped and raised his hand to his cheek and touched where the coolness had brushed him.
“Why is it different?” he whispered. “What smell . . .”
But it wasn’t a smell so much as a feeling, a newness in the air, a chill. There and gone, a brush of new-cool air on his cheek, and he should have known what it meant