Neal smiles, his voice taking on the lilting, rhythmic quality it sometimes does as he recites.

"Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'Wait and Hope.'" An appropriate pause, to distance his own words from the quote. "I haven't read Dumas in a long time."