He laughed. "I can’t believe that you just said that. That’s exactly what you said the very last time we argued—those were your very words!" He shook his head. "All right, all right...I always ask too much of you, don’t I? It was stupid of me to ask this. I’m full of meddlesome plans for other people who still have lives to live. You don’t like to take chances. I know that. You were always careful, and you were wiser and smarter than me. Bad luck to you that the two of us ever met."