Please explain,in brief, this sentence given on page 14 ( II chapter The Address ) '' And what should I have done with them in a small rented room where the shreds of black-out paper still hung along the windows and no more than a handful of cutlery fitted in the narrow table drawer ? ''

'The Address' is the story of a daughter's search for her mother's belongings and a futile attempt to recreate the life that they shared before war separated them and destroyed that life. This sentence how futile that attempt is. After the war, her life still bears signs of its ravages. Her small rented room still has black-out paper pasted on the windows, as if in fear that war might break out again. The nominal cutlery that she owns shows how the happiness and prosperity of her childhood can never be brought back. That is why she decides never to go back to No. 46, Marconi Street and look for things which would mean nothing outside their familiar setting which no longer existed.