I can't say. But I tell you Jeff needs you now--more than ever.
He don't know it, maybe. But he wants you, and if you love him you'll
just--stand by. Oh, I could tell you of a thousand ways you can help
him. A thousand ways you can show him your love without telling him. It
means a hard fight for you. I know. And maybe you'll think he isn't
worth it. But he is--to you. You love him. And any man a woman loves
is worth to her every sacrifice she can make. I don't know. Maybe you
got to be punished, not by us folk, not for what you done to Jeff. But
Someone guesses you got to be punished, and this is the way He's fixed
it. Say, Evie, you won't let go of things, will you? Maybe you can't
see ahead just now. But you will--later. You love Jeff, and he just
loves you, though he's sort of blind to it now. But he loves you, an' no
one else. He wouldn't act the way he's doing if it weren't so. I sort
of felt I must say all this to you. I--I don't know why--just. But I
won't ever talk like this again. I haven't a right, I know.
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