"There's been a miracle in my life this year."
"Yes?"
"The way you came down and took hold and made good."
"Thank you," very faintly.
"It was the biggest thing that came my way."
Silence.
"I was noticing it, Myra, out of the tail of my eye."
Myra tried to laugh. It sounded more like a dull sob.
"I haven't time to be polite."
"Don't want you to," Myra blurted.