Good afternoon!
Can you please tell me the meaning of the phrase: "No one she recognized"
The context is as follows: a woman is watching from afar a stranger who is swimming in her pool. Finally, he comes out and immediately after the author writes: 'No one she recognized'.
Original text:
'With her elbows propped on the parapet of her terrace, she watched—hard to say for how long—and was taken out of herself, until at the end of a length like any other he did not tumble into a turn, but with his head streaming moonlight came to his feet, and in the same agile movement sprang on to his splayed hands, heaved himself up, and was out. No one she recognized. A sturdy peasant type, in a bathing-slip that might have been red'.
David Malouf. Towards midnight, New York, 2007
The construction seems a little unusual to me. I would like to hear your opinion on how this sentence should be interpreted.
