How could you be so vicious?” “We meant no harm. We did not know…” “Ignorance is always the excuse used by the cruelly curious!” Kettle snarled. My own temper suddenly rose to match hers. “Don’t rebuke me with my ignorance, woman, when all you have done is refuse to lift it for me. You hint and warn and give us ominous words, but you refuse to speak anything that might help us. And when we make mistakes, you rail at us, saying we should have known better. How? How can we know better when the one who does refuses to share her knowledge with us?”
