"I can't explain to you.

All I can say is that Dad was the one who found Dan Barry and there's something between them that none of us understand.

But I know that he can help Dad.

I know Dad is in no danger while Dan is with him." "A pleasant superstition," nodded the doctor, "but medicine, my dear Miss Cumberland, does not take account of such things." "Doctor Byrne," she said, rallying a failing strength for the argument, "I insist.

Don't ask me to explain." "In that case," he answered coldly, "I cannot assume responsibility for what may happen." She made a gesture of surrender, weakly.
"Look back in on them now," she said.