"We'd like to keep her here overnight, just in case." A doctor had come in behind them. "Besides it isn't often that we get a genuine hero in this place."

"I'm no hero," Justine said. "I just couldn't stand there and let him take Kelly."

"I think you're a hero," Ms. Hall said. "I couldn't do what you did. My stomach aches just thinking about it."

"You'd do it if you had to, Ms. Hall."

"I hope so." Ms. Hall turned to Patrick. "You have an amazing daughter. If you ...