P. 39, Scene 43 (1910) I saw them.
P. 40, Scene 44 (1905 — around Christmas) Benjy, Caddy said, Benjy.
Scene 43 returns to images of the wedding and Benjy's loss of his sister, Caddy. Throughout the section, Benjy correlates Caddy with the smell of trees. Significally, when Caddy uses perfume or when she has been sexually promiscuous, Benjy senses these deviations and reacts to them through sense impressions by noting that she doesn't smell like trees. He can sense various deviations from the norm, but he can do nothing but howl or bellow about any situation. His howling here, in Scenes 43 and 44, is over the loss of Caddy and anticipates his howling when the ordered pattern is broken at the end of the novel.
The memory of Caddy's wedding in Scene 43 carries Benjy's memory back in Scene 44 to the first time when he sensed that he was losing Caddy — to the first time when she did not smell like trees because she was using perfume. The scene would be around Christmas 1905 since Caddy is referred to as being fourteen, and she gives Benjy some tinsel stars to play with. At this age, Caddy is still a virgin. Faulkner has symbolically depicted this fact by Caddy's ability to go into the bathroom and wash away her deviation (that is, the odor of her perfume). In later scenes, particularly when Caddy loses her virginity, Benjy will sense the change and will try to force Caddy into the bathroom again to wash. Each of these washing scenes is connected to the branch scene in 1898, when Caddy gets her drawers muddy, and also to the scene in the Quentin section when Caddy goes to the branch and lies in the water up to her hips just after she has lost her virginity.
