If it was his way of bidding her tell him of her evening's experience,
she did not obey him, and he had to make another attempt on her silence.
"Was Hughey there?"

"Hughey? I don't know."

"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?"