"There...if y'didn't know y'were with child...then y'couldn't have known..."

He's trying to put the pieces together. Dates and events, how much stress she was under, in addition to the sickness from the infection; how hard she had to work to survive.

His hand is still running over her hair.

"It...nothin' could've told you..."



I could have, if I'd been there...instead of buried under dirt and snow in the grave.