Did she say, I will pay you your wages on Saturday and then you can be gone out of here, and that will be the end of it and good riddance? Yes. She did say that. Was I crouching behind the kitchen door after that, crying? Did he take me in his arms? Did I let him do it? Did he say Grace, why are you crying? Did I say I wished she was dead? Oh no. Surely I did not say that. Or not out loud. And I did not really wish her dead. I only wished her elsewhere, which was the same thing she wished for me. Did I push him away? Did he say I will soon make you think better of me? Did he say I will tell
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It took ages upon ages to reach THE INCIDENT(tm), and now that we finally have and it still remains so elusive... This might actually be my favourite paragraph in the entire book.
