"Do you wish to know more ?" "Is she--was she--is she out there ?" He knew she meant to ask, in the graveyard of the family.
"Why do you wish to know ?" he inquired quietly.

"Is it because you are a woman ?" "I am here because I am a woman.

Well, then." He looked at her, still silently, for a time.

"She is dead," he said slowly.

"Can't you let her lie dead ?" "No.