So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take.
He had to take it out on somebody and I’d rather it be me than that houseful of children out there. You understand?”
Jem nodded. Aunt Alexandra entered the room as Atticus was saying,
We don’t have anything to fear from Bob Ewell, he got it all out of his system that morning.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that, Atticus,” she said. “His kind’d do anything to pay off a grudge. You know how those people are.
What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?” “Something furtive,” Aunt Alexandra said. “You may count on that.
“Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb,” Atticus answered.
After that, we were not afraid. Summer was melting away, and we made the most of it.
Atticus assured us that nothing would happen to Tom Robinson until the higher court reviewed his case,
and that Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial.
He was at Enfield Prison Farm, seventy miles away in Chester County.
I asked Atticus if Tom’s wife and children were allowed to visit him, but Atticus said no.
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