"You act as if I don't know what I'm
doing' and I DO know. If I should lie down for a MILLION YEARS,
I'd feel just the same about it. I couldn't bear him to TOUCH
me! I--"
"For Heaven's sake, don't shout it," Miss Georgie interrupted,
exasperatedly. "Do you want him--"
"To hear? _I_ don't care whether he does or not." Evadna was
turning sullen at the opposition. "He'll have to know it SOME
TIME, won't he? If you think can forgive a thing like that and
let--"
"He had to do it. Baumberger would have killed HIM. He had a
perfect right to kill. He'd have been a fool and a coward if he
hadn't. You come and lie down a while."
"I WON'T lie down. I don't care if he did have to do it--I
couldn't love him afterward. And he didn't have to go down there
and threaten Stanley--and--HE'LL DO IT, TOO!" She fell to
trembling again. "He'll DO it--at sundown."
Phoebe and Miss Georgie looked at each other. He would, if the
men stayed. They knew that.
"And I was going to marry him!" Evadna shuddered when she said
it, and covered her face with her two hands.
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