And yet it wasn't our fault, Zoeth.
You know as well as I do that Marcellus didn't want to see us.

We was over to see him last and he scarcely said a word while we was there.
You and me did all the talkin' and he just set and looked at us--when he wasn't lookin' at the floor.

I never saw such a change in a man.

We asked--yes, by fire, we fairly begged him to come and stay with us for a spell, but he never did.

Now it ain't no further from Ostable to South Harniss than it is from South Harniss to Ostable.