And Darrin repeated his question: “Was this the way you came?”
Evered nodded. As they went on nearer the spring Darrin touched his arm. “I want you to show me where you were when you first saw them—your wife, and Semler, and the bull.”
Evered made no response; but a moment later he stopped. “Here,” he said. Darrin looked down toward the spring and all about them. And Evered repeated, “Here, by this rock.”
The younger man nodded and passed down to the spring, with Evered beside him. Darrin sat down and motioned Evered to sit.
“What did you think, when you saw them?” he asked.
Evered’s cheeks colored slowly; they turned from bronze to red, from red to purple.
Darrin prompted him: “When you saw your wife and Semler here together.”
“What would you have thought?” Evered asked, his voice held steady.
Darrin nodded understanding. “You were angry?” he suggested.
Evered flung his head on one side with a fierce gesture, as though to shut out some unwelcome sight that assaulted his eyes.