Hell to pay… she kept saying to herself in a queer anger. She stopped where the wooden wall ended and the water ran past the low bank. It was not a dark night, it was grey, with a faint mist from the marshes, like smoke; there was a rank swamp smell in the still air.
And the sound of the engine was growing louder and louder, a dreadful sound, inexorable, a machine rushing toward her. Hell to pay… What does she mean by saying she’ll marry Neely, when she’s got a husband? And if she cares that much for Neely, what does she mean by leading Mr. Getty on? A married man… No wonder somebody wrote an anonymous letter to Mrs. Getty.
meanShe’s killed one man… But out under the open sky, the phrase had a different meaning. It doesn’t mean murder, Maggie thought. It means destroying men’s souls, and
