"I've a sister, a dead sister in law, two live ones, and a dead wife who've all had children. I know what a pregnant woman looks like, even when I'm half blind."

She goes quiet, and there's more there than that. He has a line of questions, impertinent ones, that he sets aside for the moment. There's a long road ahead of him. He'll have to hold some of them for a while.

"Now--" He clears his throat. "You ask me a question."