such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord.
I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free,
but thought if they were as tired as I, it wouldn’t work.
Dill was sound asleep, his head on Jem’s shoulder, and Jem was quiet.
“Ain’t it a long time?” I asked him. “Sure is, Scout,” he said happily.
“Well, from the way you put it, it’d just take five minutes.” Jem raised his eyebrows.
“There are things you don’t understand,” he said, and I was too weary to argue.
But I must have been reasonably awake, or I would not have received the impression that was creeping into me.
It was not unlike one I had last winter, and I shivered, though the night was hot.
The feeling grew until the atmosphere in the courtroom was exactly the same as a cold February morning,
when the mockingbirds were still, and the carpenters had stopped hammering on Miss Maudie’s new house,
and every wood door in the neighborhood was shut as tight as the doors of the Radley Place.
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