He couldn’t see her face, but he could hear pain in her voice, and this surprised him. He was used to hearing pain in the voices of things, and he often knew at once what they were feeling. But human beings were more opaque. And then there was the question itself. Why would he know what the B-man would feel? She knew him so much better than he did. “No,” he said, but he had no idea if this was true or not.
