“What was it? Can’t you find out? Can’t you think? Think.”
“Sometimes—I’ve thought it may have been my fear.”
“Fear?”
“Yes, it’s the worst thing. Don’t you remember, I told you not to be afraid?”
“But, Agatha, you were not afraid.”
“I was—afterwards. I got frightened.”
“You? And you told me not to be afraid,” said Milly.
“I had to tell you.”
“And I wasn’t afraid—afterwards. I believed in you. He believed in you.”
“You shouldn’t have. You shouldn’t. That was just it.”