Expression: 'What does it mean then, when call it all mean?'

[Tom]

Hi

Please see below:

"What does it mean then, when call it all mean?"

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

Could you please shed some light on the sentence?
What does it mean?

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

I need context. 8)

Amy
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