"We don’t know they’re in danger. We can’t be sure the girl even got the names right—she can’t read, after all. Anyway, what if we’re wrong? We’d be frightening these people for nothing. And besides, what could they do? Go to the police and tell them that some Englishman in New York has told them, on the basis of a phone call from a girl in Azania to an American she’s never seen and doesn’t know, that they’re in mortal danger? Don’t be ridiculous."