“How did it happen, Alresca? Tell me.”
“I cannot tell you! I saw — saw something, and I fell, and caught my leg against some timber, and I don’t remember any more.”
“Saw something? What did you see?”
There was a silence.
“Were you frightened?” Rosa continued softly.
Then another silence.
“Yes,” said Alresca at length, “I was frightened.”
“What was it?”
“I say I cannot tell you. I do not know.”
“You are keeping something from me, Alresca,”