*Standing there and watching him, she'd felt her lower lip begin to tremble threateningly, but she bit it into submission. Luckily speaking wasn't required of her. She thinks of her father's arrival and subsequent death and the complete contrast between what a speeding car had done for her and what a speeding car had done to Herman.

When he motions for her to sit beside him, she does so silently, folding her legs up like he has.*