"Well, it was more that I didn't have them in the first place," Harry said.

He wondered briefly if he should tell Klaus more. Admit that there were two of them, and the complications that caused.

But instead he just said, "But it looks like it might work out after all."

He put a hand lightly on Klaus' knee. "I'm not so vain as to think that you'd be devastated if you didn't hear from me, but I did want to tell you in person."