For a moment both were silent.
"Why!" he asked.

She swallowed hard.
"Because we never have before.

We've--gone two years without speaking her name.

I had no idea how bad that might be." She broke off, for her voice was trembling so.

"I don't know how much you've learned in that time--about Amy, I mean--but I've learned a lot, and--I think I'd better tell you.