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"As I said, I want to know my future."

"You know your future as well as I do; the only question is when, and you are aware, I think, that I would not tell you that even if I could, What do you want?"

So much for polite conversation. I said, "You know who Jill Quarrier is."

"Of course."

"Then you ought to know that she failed."

The old woman frowned. "Failed?"

"She didn't have what it took."

"She couldn't have--"

"If I had left her alone, it might have been different. Then again, it might not have."

She glared at me. "What have you done to her?"

"She lives."