Hang it, there must be something about her
that will give it away. She could still remember
herself at age five, staring knives and daggers at the men
who came into the small yarn shop, under pretense of
business but really just to leer. ”
He looked at her gravely. Anna——”
Again she stopped him, but this time it was not so easy. ’
Melusine rose from her chair in sudden irritation. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. Because their human lives were so
short, the happily married had no time to get sick of one
another. This structure at once satisfied him
as to where he stood. He had tossed an honoured name into the mire; he required no prison
bars to accentuate this misery. " The tone was neutral. She crawled over and caught at the skirts of this
white woman who understood. ”
She knelt upon the floor of her cell and clasped her hands, and remained for a
long time in silence.
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