How would you interpret ‘alone together’ here? How would you interpret ‘alone together’ in the first sentence of the following passage? Does it mean they were always together and there were no others, only the two mutes? Thanks! It’s from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by McCullers the context: The two mutes had no other friends, and except when they worked they were alone together. Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them. Once a week they would go to the library for Singer to withdraw a mystery book and on Friday night they attended a movie. Then on payday they always went to the ten-cent photograph shop above the Army and Navy Store so that Antonapoulos could have his picture taken. These were the only places where they made customary visits. There were many parts in the town that they had never even seen.