And I--" He stood up, bracing mind and body.
"And I'm so brutally proud of it," he said.

"She wants me.

Well, that's a lot for a son to be able to say.

Sylvia, I would give anything to keep her." Still he was not thinking of her, and knowing that, she came close to him and put her arm in his.

She longed to give him some feeling of comradeship.