“Why ‘of course’? I don’t quite understand.”
“She knew it was going to be a boy.”
The doctor smiled faintly.
“Women often have strange fancies at such times. I mean before they are confined.”
“But you see she was right. It is a boy.”
“Exactly,” returned the doctor, looking at his nails.
Dion saw the star falling above the hill of Drouva.
Did the Hermes know?