Johnyxxx
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Hello,
Can anybody tell me if I did not trust myself to say anything more is just another way of saying I didn´t dare say anything more?
Contempt and impatience were stamped on her face. “If both of you would stop talking as if I—as if we—were guilty of something, it would be at least sensible. I admit I hadn’t thought about the inquest, but after all it’s not going to do us any harm to be able to tell our story in public.”
Anne and I let it go at that. I did not trust myself to say anything more to Mrs Walters and she behaved as if the two of us were no longer in the room. She had turned back to her window. I wondered if the boat lights were still crawling back and forth across the invisible water.
William Sloane, Edge of Running Water, 1939.
Thank you.
Can anybody tell me if I did not trust myself to say anything more is just another way of saying I didn´t dare say anything more?
Contempt and impatience were stamped on her face. “If both of you would stop talking as if I—as if we—were guilty of something, it would be at least sensible. I admit I hadn’t thought about the inquest, but after all it’s not going to do us any harm to be able to tell our story in public.”
Anne and I let it go at that. I did not trust myself to say anything more to Mrs Walters and she behaved as if the two of us were no longer in the room. She had turned back to her window. I wondered if the boat lights were still crawling back and forth across the invisible water.
William Sloane, Edge of Running Water, 1939.
Thank you.
