"Sean's been digging, has he? Do you know if he's turned up anything?" What was this talk about a beard? Daddy doesn't have a beard, she thought, never having read Tolkien. This girl's kind of strange, but I'll bet her uncle will be a good person to know if things get much worse. "I'll bring the tree, but he'll probably be clean-shaven. He'll be glad to hear you're Christians, too. He's a Baptist minister, but I guess you already know that. So what are you all, Catholic?"