“Mary, I do not know and I do not need to know whether thou pulled me from thy life like a bad tooth because my simples failed thee or because there are those who view my interests as peculiar—because, to be blunt, thou feared an association with someone of my sensibilities.” “I told thee,” Mary said quickly, “I have simply had much to tend to.” “I don’t care. All I want thee to know is this: thou art a woman facing men who would be comfortable to see thee dangling there,” she said, and she pointed up at the scaffold with the hanging platform. “I harbor no ill will and no grudge. I believe we
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