Elliot wondered how much of this advice had come from his Inner Eye, versus how much had come from his own prescriptions for Endymion Dempsey — it was not as if Elliot were an expert on love, but he suspected that he could benefit from this advice himself, and just because he did not act on it did not mean that he wouldn't suggest it to someone else.

But he wasn't going to say any of that to Dempsey.

He smiled at the other man's question. "No," Elliot said, "Unfortunately, the Sight has not blessed me with that knowledge." (A sentence that tended to go over better than 'it doesn't work like that,' in his experience.)