A month ago that all ceased." She flung her head back with a sharp defiant movement as though the memory of it hurt her.
"I've told you this before.

I talked to you about it when you were here last.

But since then he has become much worse and I am afraid that anything may happen.

I have no one to go to.

It is killing my mother, and then--you were a friend of his." "I hope that I am now." "That is the horrible part of it.