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Show Page 130 I said then, "methinks that act would only make us more like the savages and give us less hope for making them more like us. If it be true, as my father was wont to quote, that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap, then perhaps we should sow the seeds of understanding and friendship, not the seeds of hatred and distrust." I ceased my speech, marvelling that I had found nerve to speak thus to Richard, marvelling, too, at the feelings my words revealed. Walter cleared his throat and scraped his pipe into the fireplace. Margaret scurried about arranging trenchers and noggins, though these had been put carefully away hours before. Behind me, where John sat next Twig, I thought a heard a quiet chuckle. Richard's lips were drawn tight. "I fear you are mistaken, Mistress Douglas," he said. "We will not be safe in Virginia until the last Indian lies dead with a musket ball through his heart. I pray you come to believe me ere it is too late, and you, instead, lie dead." With those words he rose to his feet and removed himself from the house. I do not think I imagined that his steps were heavier than usual, each one saying to me, "Shame, shame, shame." Only a short time before I had determined to favor neither Richard nor John. And now I had made it look as though John and I were |