As he stood by the window, what filled Jack Troy then was the fantastical idea of grace as an actual thing. That it was something real, and at that moment the thing he suddenly longed for the most: for one last time, to make an act of grace, even if he was not sure he believed in it, or in the daylight could have explained why. Only that he wanted to feel a sense of grace, which, by what calculus of cause and effect too mysterious and human to say, he knew was bound up with freeing his daughter from him and pushing her gently, but surely, towards love. God wants us to love, was a saying of his
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