Later, James asked: "Do you really need it?"
Jessica glanced at him and the sublimity of her soft features and softer expression was an answer of its own.
"Don't take this the wrong way," he said, "But you are a lovely girl already? Or could be. We have the means to give you whatever you need. Of course, I don't mean to stop. This search is as much about my sister as anything. It gives me hope sometimes."
"That you will find her."
"It feels foolish."
"Hope always does," she said.