I was only keeping it for you." "You thought Chad wouldn't have told me ?" She hesitated.

"Well, if he hasn't--" "He hasn't.

And yet the thing appears to have been practically his doing.

So there we are." "There we are!" Maria candidly echoed.
"That's why I jumped.

I jumped," he continued to explain, "because it means, this disposition of the daughter, that there's now nothing else: nothing else but him and the mother." "Still--it simplifies." "It simplifies"-- he fully concurred.