Havelock... does not relax. Then again, he hasn't done so for weeks.

He shakes his head instead, in thought and a little in frustration.

He does so hate not to know or not to understand.

"Angelic," he says, with apparent lightness. "That in one world a being can have such power, and yet be nonexistent in another. I would not wish him on mine, yet I could certainly use the knowledge of someone who lives where he exists."