"They ought to be hung for it."
"They didn't know, either. It was my fault. I knew."
It seemed to her that she had known, that she had known all the time, that she remembered knowing.
"Did he tell you?"
"He didn't tell anybody…. Did he know?"
"Yes, Mary. He came to me to be overhauled. I told him he wasn't fit to go."
"I did try to stop him."
"Why?"
He looked at her sharply, as if he were trying to find out something, to fix responsibility.
"Because I knew."