9/21 "I hope they find something to cook! She sold her piano mighty quick after Jim died!" Bibbs jumped up. He was trembling from head to foot and he was dizzy--of all the real things he could never have dreamed in his dream the last would have been what he heard now. He felt that something incredible was happening, and that he was powerless to stop it. It seemed to him that heavy blows were falling on his head and upon Mary's; it seemed to him that he and Mary were being struck and beaten physically--and that something hideous impended. He wanted to shout to Sibyl to be silent, but he could not; he could only stand, swallowing and trembling. |