"I can just say it to ya because I needed a good example of the kind of shit did to illustrate just how I could get forced into doin a thing I didn't want to do. Plus, it ain't the worst thing she ever did, so I guess that makes it a bit easier."
He sat forward, mirroring Errol.
"She weren't a good person, that's how." He sat back some, thinking that the joke might be lost on somebody who was asking a serious question. "Marie did what she wanted, when she wanted, and got away with it cause she had a lot of money. When ya got yer own land and the sheriff in yer pocket, you don't get bothered much about little things like laws and morality."