“But how much––in what way?”
“Just a blow on the head. Please not to think about it.”
“I have thought so many horrible things.”
“Where are you now?”
“Mr. Sorez did not dare to stay there. He really is much stronger, and so he came here to a friend’s. I did not dare to let him come alone.”
“But you aren’t going to stay there. What are you going to do now?”
He thought she hesitated for a moment.
“I can’t tell, David. My head is in such a whirl.”
“You ought to go back home,” he suggested.
“Home? My home is with my father, and nowhere else.”