“In the end, there are some people it makes sense to trust.’ ‘Why?’ He had no idea where this line of questioning had come from nor where it might lead them, but he sensed the seriousness with which she was pursuing it. ‘Because there are some people, still, who can be trusted absolutely. We have to believe that’s so.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because if we don’t find at least someone we can trust absolutely, then, well, we’re made less by not having them. And by not having the experience of trusting them.’ He wasn’t exactly sure what he meant by this, or perhaps he was just doing a bad job of explaining what it was he did mean, but he knew he felt that he would be a lesser man if there were no one into whose hands he would put himself.”