"It was five years later that you--stopped me from freeing myself.

Lots of things were crowded into those five years, Katie--or rather into the last three of them.

I had to be treated worse than Tono was treated before it came to me that I had better be as kind to myself as I had been to my dog.

Only I," Ann laughed, "didn't have anybody to give me a last hour!" "But you see it wasn't a last hour, after all," soothed Katie.

"Only the last hour of the old hard things.