now , all we could do was see what sort of trap they had set - and hope we could somehow survive it . but everybody knows how many friends everybody else has . no wonder she needed to come here three to four times a week . there were one or two screams , and then the crowd moved like a tide . after the bus took all those young men from the town , i was sick with what i knew it would take to make it right and i almost didnt do it . 