He silenced him with a gesture.

And now his eyes seemed for the time being to have finished with both of them; in spite of the darkness they both knew that he had resumed the far-away look that seemed able to see things finished.
"Yes," said Rosemary.

"I promised.

I had to." Her father gasped.

But Cunningham appeared to follow an unbroken chain of thought, and she listened.
"Well.