There are old people and children and city people and they all expect us to come up with a miracle—and, Harvey, I just don't have any miracles, but I have to go on pretending that I do."
"They hope," she said. "They come to the house, or I go to theirs, and they believe we can save them. That I can save them. Some of them are crazy. There's a boy in town, Mayor Seitz's youngest boy. He's fifteen, and he wanders around naked in the rain unless his mother brings him in. There are five women whose husbands never came back from a hunting trip. There are old people and children and city people and they all expect us to come up with a miracle—and, Harvey, I just don't have any miracles, but I have to go on pretending that I do."
