He could tell neither of them really had their hearts in it. Unfortunately, he didn't have any better ideas ... so perhaps it was best just not to talk about it. (But then, when would they? It wasn't going to be any better tomorrow, unless one of them had a real miracle of an epiphany.) "That lot can take care of themselves," he said, a tentative attempt at closing the subject. They had enough to worry about without fretting over the people left back at school.