“It isn’t only that something is going on which you don’t understand that makes you afraid.”
The woman considered this word by word and then shook her head.
“No,” she said, “there is more.”
“Something has happened—you’ve seen it—maybe more than once,” suggested Bat.
The big man had a pretty clear belief that for a guest to endeavour to worm things out of his host’s servants was not altogether decent; but in the present case he felt that the attempt was justified.
“There have been many things happened,” spoke the woman. “They began when we first came, and they have never stopped.”
She sat looking at Bat for a moment, then she proceeded:
“Do you know why you are here?”
Bat nodded.
“I never been told, but I’ve kind of guessed my way through it.”