I think that might be it. I...don't know precisely when those years--not only Simpson, but Ferrol as well--when they weren't any longer the most important of my life. Sometimes they still are. I can't sleep in the dark. But...looking back, I don't believe it really began to happen till I told Horatio. And I knew there was one person in all the world I could trust with anything. [He has gone very train-of-thought, saying whatever comes to mind.] It made for one place in all the world that was...safe.