Question

1. Then she found that the tears _ a _ quietly __ from her eyes. Perhaps they __ for a long time, (to flow, to flow) (Murdoch)

Answer 1

1. Then she found that the tears _ a _ quietly __ from her eyes. Perhaps they __ for a long time, (to flow, to flow) (Murdoch)

1. Then she found that the tears were quietly flowing from her eyes. Perhaps they had been flowing for a long time.

Answer 2

The sentence you provided appears to be incomplete or contains some errors. Here's a corrected version:

"Then she found that the tears flowed quietly from her eyes. Perhaps they had been flowing for a long time."

In this corrected version, I filled in the blanks and made the sentence grammatically coherent.