what you have done is unforgivable. unforgivable i won't forgive you for it, ever. And the children will understand won't you?
She swung round to them in appeal. None of them moved. None of them spoke. Their faces were pale little masks. Even the humming had stopped now.
Daniel appealed to them in his turn.
'Tell her! Tell her, damn you! Tell her how all this only began in the first place because she was so impossible, so blind to your wishes and to mine, because she was always totally deaf to any suggestion that inconvenienced her, even for a moment that''disrupted her routine