"Not with any one of you." He glanced at her with a twinge of pain.

"I don't know as it would have helped much if I had.

This town is running away with itself.

I want a rest now, Edith, I want things quiet for a while." He felt her anxious, pitying look.
"Where's Deborah ?" she asked him.

"Gone back to school already ?" "I don't know where she is," he replied.