He laughed, abruptly lightening the mood. "Oh, no! You're going to have to work this out with him. "But then he sighed. "That's the one part I can never be sure of. I think, in most other ways, that I've done the best I could with what I had to work with. But was it right to doom the others to this life? I can't decide. " I didn't answer. I imagined what my life would be like if Carlisle had resisted the temptation to change his lonely existence?? and shuddered. "It was Edward's mother who made up my mind. " Carlisle's voice was almost a whisper. He stared unseeingly out the black windows. "His mother?" Whenever I'd asked Edward about his parents, he would merely say that they had died long ago, and his memories were vague. I realized Carlisle's memory of them, despite the brevity of
