She looked around wildly, at the livid sky behind them, at the dark trees on either hand hemming them in like a prison wall, at the frightened figures in the back of the wagon — and finally at him.
" We won't do this" ! he said. " I tell you we won't do it" ! It seemed as if her neck would snap if he shook her again. She was blinded by her hair and stunned by his action.