“Didn't he ask to come home with you?”
“I didn't see him. Sally Reverdy came with me.”
“Yes, I knew that.”
She was silent for another moment and then she said, “Father, I have a message for you. He said, 'I send my peace to him; and it will not return unto me.' He said you needed him.”
Gillespie knew that she meant Dylks and he knew that she kept out of her voice whatever feeling she had in delivering his message.
In the dark, she could not see her father's frown, but she was aware of it in his answer. “You went there against my will. Well?”
“I believe.”
“You believe? What do you believe?”
“Him. That he is sent.”
“Why?”