In HEART OF DARKNESS, Marlow encounters the force of eyes and glances wherever he goes--reproachful, fearful, intense; and the glance of Kurtz's fiancee, "guiless, profound, confident, and trustful," (see. p. 126 in Bantam edition and p.153 in Signet Classic edition); yet, ironically, in all its qualities, dangerous, as it drives him into a "hollowness."