"This is rather a cold-blooded proposition."
He said that enough was enough, and he would have me taken to the hospital. I didn't understand right away.
I waited and waited and the agony didn't get any less, and I sometimes wondered why I didn't die.
“You're in a safe place, anyway. We're here to take care of you, not to punish you."
Why lie, I thought. —It wouldn't be hard to explain!
I'm just telling you.
There must have been some mistake.
Humbly; begging; whining: all in vain.
There was no use plugging your ears, and there was no escape.
Surely he'd been more innocent than I....
No, I think, I didn't suffer so terribly.--
I would never be able to explain what happened.
It was important not to think about it.
You were at least free to fight back.
Sometimes I thought there was no way they wouldn't find me.
I laughed out loud, and then I was running and wanted to cry.
"I can't imagine ever being in such a position."
What unseen horror had afflicted me?