And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled.
Was it possible they heard not?
Almighty God!
-- no, no? They heard! -- they suspected! -- they KNEW! --
they were making a mockery of my horror!
-- this I thought, and this I think.
But anything was better than this agony!
Anything was more tolerable than this derision!
I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!