They were — they were quite shaken to hear from us.

I think, honestly, we should wait a while before we even consider putting Silas and Daisy in the same room.

I heard the caution in it, and I understood the caution, and I had simply run entirely out of patience for it.

Caution had a long and distinguished record in this case.

Caution had separated them.

Caution had restricted the contact and routed the letters and counseled the clean break.

Every single injury these two children carried had been inflicted by someone being careful, going slowly, waiting for the right time, acting in the children’s own best interest as some adult in an office had defined it.