-Well, you can't well be expected, seeing as how you're the only one here, so far.
-You mean that there's no one else in the house?
-No one you'd wanna see.I serve dinner on the dining room side board at six. I have breakfast set at nine. I don't
wait on people. I don't stay after I set out the dinner.
Not after it begins to get dark. I leave before the dark comes.
-Your husband?
-We live in town, miles away.
-Yes.
-So there won't be anyone around if you need help. We
couldn't even hear you, in the night. No one could hear you. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that.
-I know.
-In the night... in the dark. |
