Nobody had.

And I said, “Then you’ll have to do it, Mother.

He’s your grandson.”

And Agnes Thorne said: “I am not raising an illegitimate child in this valley at sixty-four years of age.

We have appearances to keep.”

That is the sentence everybody remembers, and it is the one I repeated for nineteen years, and I want to say now, at forty-eight, with everything in front of me that is in front of me, that it was not the true sentence.

It was the sentence she had decided to say.