naturally , in the circumstances , stone agreed to do anything he could . `` someone is , '' the sister chimed in . `` we can go into all that later , sir , if you do n't mind . i was getting a little hungry , but i wanted to make sense of what had just happened , so food was going to have to wait . i 'd hoped he would come , and i 'd been pretty sure he would have cooled off enough . they were hoping to prevent your birth . '' 