"You will never send," she said.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because that man will quarrel with you and kill you on the way out."
"That's nonsense; you must listen to what I have planned. This summer we found gold on the Forbidden River."
"I know that."
"Who told you?"
"Eyelids."
"Why did he tell you?"
"He found it himself in the spring, when father sent him up there after Spurling; and he was angry when he knew that you had gone there, because he wanted it for himself."
"Did he stop here all summer?"