couldn't-even

Updated: May 22, 2025

And the awful little creature's screams would be going on all the time making the blackness and dead silence of the house below more filled with horror by contrast-more shut off and at the same time more likely to waken to some horror which was new. "I-I couldn't-even if I wanted to!" she quaked. "I daren't! I daren't!

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Head of the House of Coombe