convinced that her husband can never see what she sees, “Blind creature” (16). When he says he finally sees what she has been looking at over her shoulder she doesn’t believe that he is seeing the same thing. He has never seen it from this point of view before, “I’ve never noticed it from here before,” (21). His explanation is that he is accustomed to it and this may be the reason why he has never seen “The little graveyard where my people are!So small the window frames the whole of it,” (24-25). But it is not the graveyard that is the fear over her shoulder, but rather what is in the graveyard and her memory of her son’s burial. He says that it is not the stones that they have to mind, “But the child’s mound-” (28). The woman does not want to talk about it. She only wants to get away. She retreats down the stairs. She will not let her husband speak; he is not allowed to speak of his lost child, if any man is allowed such outward co
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