"She is a slut," I said, "because she went up on the mountain with a man, instead of to bed with her husband. Is it, Dada?" My father was quiet for a little, with his back to me, looking down into the Valley. "Yes," my father said. "That is why she is a slut." "Then what is Chris Phillips, then?" I asked. "He did very wrong," said my father, but there was no body in his voice. "Mr. Gruffydd will have a word with him." "But not in front of all the people," I said. "If Meillyn Lewis is a slut, Chris Phillips is a coward. And I know which of them is the worst."