“He didn’t know her name, but he knew she worked in the fiction department” – indirect
“Since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner- she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines.” – indirect
“She was a bold-looking girl about twenty-seven with thick hair and freckled face and swift athletic movements” – indirect
“A narrow scarlet sash emblem of the junior anti sex league was wound several times round the waist of her overalls just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips” – indirect
“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future… it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.” – direct
“She was ‘not clever’, but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with the machinery.” – direct