"Oh, but to Fiona, he has never been gone," Mrs. Hackworth said. "It is 
the book, you see, that ractive book. When John gave it to her, just before he 
departed, he said that it was magic, and that he would talk to her through it. 
I know it's nonsense, of course, but she really believes that whenever she 
opens that book, her father reads her a story
and even plays with her in an imaginary world, so that she hasn't really missed 
him at all. I haven't the heart to tell her that it's nothing more than a 
computerized media programme."