top of tairs, .

    “You promised you  leave us,” said S, wo cry.

    My mind  to close te. I kissed S on eitigaking in t of o airs.”

    t upstairs. I returned and stood a feeps bee. I assumed  see me. ion in trees

    t lined treet? As it oo. It o convene in t see, but it  ified. it guilty, al sadness t I ing me. My beloved Alla suffering for t a means to reac not?

    I’d killed my fat S  everyt ted an unpardonable sin deserving of torments of o to explain it all. If I o be innocent, if my  red o urned to il y, a  sort of sacrifice—for  oo severe. e patiently listened to iced t t silence amid trees.

    “If you return of your oo true ely different tone, “if you silently pitter-patter back  being seen by anyone, I’ll forget tted, all of it, I’ll forgive it all. And,  togeter year, patiently, for my broturn.”

    as ile in  o me in front of my  I feared it mig him his life.

    “Do you understand?”  from among trees.

    I couldn’t determine exactly o us, Your sinning servants.

    “Because you  be able to live under this I know.”

    I momentarily t t  e. But I couldn’t be certain of anything.

    “Listen to me,  to true. t despicable of men killed him.”

    “ t so?” said s. If o be appropriate, er to him years ago.”

    e  as  detail of everyt  ly forgotten, or noed to forget. Over t I ant Black o me if o begin recounting t.

    “e suspect t you he one who killed him,” Black said.

    “On trary, you . As for me, I ive.”