Had the scrimmage
occurred on the opposite bank, beneath which the water was much deeper,
Joan in all probability would have had murder on her soul. It seemed to
Joan that if God, all-powerful and all-foreseeing, had been so careful in
selecting the site, He might with equal ease have prevented the row from
ever taking place. Why couldn't the little beast have been guided back
from school through the orchard, much the shorter way, instead of being
brought round by the yard, so as to come upon her at a moment when she
was feeling a bit short-tempered, to put it mildly? And why had God
allowed him to call her "Carrots"? That Joan should have "put it" this
way, instead of going down on her knees and thanking the Lord for having
saved her from a crime, was proof of her inborn evil disposition. In the
evening was reached the culminating point. Just before going to bed she
had murdered old George the cowman. For all practical purposes she might
just as well have been successful in drowning William Augustus earlier in
the day. It seemed to be one of those things that had to be.
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