"Well, he’s no prize, our querido papá , but he cares! I mean, he cares some. At least, he wouldn’t send his daughter into a death trap, just to gratify his own curiosity!" Alex started talking really quickly. "I think Mulcahey does care about you some, when he can be bothered to notice you instead of his mathematics, and in fact that’s why Jerry stuck me in here with you today, so you would slow down some, and not do anything really crazy. Right? Right! That’s him all over!"