"Miss Ch-Chevalier," Gideon inquired gently, "perhaps if you remained stationery, it might be easier for him to return to you. O-only for a moment, of c-course!"

Either young Bernard was willfully evading his sister (which seemed a preposterous notion to the healer) or he was looking for her as she was looking for him, moving as though hands on a pocket-watch. An hour could be spent before the two hands met.