The invocation sounded as if he also prayed.
"This time," she continued, "he—he seemed to have a realizin' sense."
She paused a perplexed moment. In the little she had said to Raven, he had noted from the first that she was often blocked by a difficulty in finding words she thought adequate. "He seemed to know what was comin'," she said. "He give me warnin'."
"Warning?"
"Yes. He come in an' he says to me, 'You don't want to go traipsin' round in this snow.'"
Raven noted the word and smiled slightly. He and Tenney were at one in their care for her.
"'You go up chamber,' he says, 'an' have a fire in the air-tight an' turn the key. I dunno,' he says, 'what's goin' to happen, this day. I dunno.'"
"Why didn't you?" asked Raven.
"I didn't hardly dast to," she said, with her clear look at him. "I knew if he knew I's up there he never could stan' it till he—broke in the door."
Raven could only look at her.