Answer:
Alice made that statement because she blamed the character she was referring to for Isaac getting caught while trying to escape and having his ears cut off.
Explanation:
“Why didn’t you tell me?” she asked bitterly. “You could have said something, got me out of his room, his bed … Oh Lord, his bed! And he may as well have cut my Isaac’s ears off with his own hand.”
This is an excerpt from Kindred by Octavia E. Butler.
The book talks about a girl named Alice who fell in love with Isaac, a slave and tried to help him escape but he was caught and had his ears cut off.
Before Isaac tried to escape, he got into a fight with the character she is referring to and Isaac beat him up. So Alice believed he reported Isaac that's why he was caught and had his ears cut off, then sent to Mississippi.
