Her eyes bored in. "This woman, whoever she is, was very, very lucky. If what she says is true." Her eyes bored in. "This woman, whoever she is, was very, very lucky. If what she says is true." "The organization that got the baby for her is called Children of Light," I went on. "That's all I know, really. I think it's up the Hudson somewhere, past the Cloisters. Have you ever heard of them?" "The organization that got the baby for her is called Children of Light," I went on. "That's all I know, really. I think it's up the Hudson somewhere, past the Cloisters. Have you ever heard of them?" Dr. Hannah Klein, I knew, was pushing three score and ten, had traveled the world, seen virtually everything worth seeing. In younger years she was reputed to have had torrid liaisons with every notable European writer on the West Side. Her list of conquests read like an old New Yorker masthead. If only I looked half that great at her age. But whatever else, she was unflappable. Good news or bad, she took it and gave it with grace. Until this moment. Her eyes registered undisguised dismay. Dr. Hannah Klein, I knew, was pushing three score and ten, had traveled the world, seen virtually everything worth seeing. In younger years she was reputed to have had torrid liaisons with every notable European writer on the West Side. Her list of conquests read like an old New Yorker masthead. If only I looked half that great at her age. But whatever else, she was unflappable. Good news or bad, she took it and gave it with grace. Until this moment. Her eyes registered undisguised dismay. "You can't mean it. Not that place. All that so-called New Age . . . are you really sure you want to get involved in something like that?" "You can't mean it. Not that place. All that so-called New Age . . . are you really sure you want to get involved in something like that?" I found myself deeply confused. Were we talking about the same thing? Then I remembered Carly had said something about an infertility clinic. I found myself deeply confused. Were we talking about the same thing? Then I remembered Carly had said something about an infertility clinic. "Frankly, nobody knows the first thing about that man," Hannah raged on. "All you get is hearsay. He's supposedly one of those alternative-medicine types, and a
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