A speech he had heard his father make long, long ago, came back to him: "Always be kind to children.

Grown people may forget kindness, but children will remember it.

They forgive, but never forget either a kindness or an injury." Another speech of his father's came floating to Livingstone across the years: "If you have made an enemy of a child, make him your friend if it takes a year! A child's enmity is never incurred except by injustice or meanness." Livingstone could not but think of Clark's little girl.

Might she not help him?
She would know children.

But would she help him?
If she were like Clark, he reasoned, she would be kind-hearted.