"I came to hold a light before the dreadful path. The warning is given."
"Never."
"What? The Thing will come, and not you?"
"What have I to do with It, who am more helpless before It than you? Go; and give thanks that you may."
"Listen," I commanded, as firmly as I could. "I am not going away from this house without better reason. All this is too sudden and too new to me. If you have more knowledge than I, you have no right to desert me half-convinced of what I should do."
"I can stay no longer."
"Why can you not come again?"
"You plan to trap me," she reproached.
"No. Word of honor! You shall come and go as you please; I will not make a movement toward you."