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Barnabas opens the PT room doors and hears Melanie laughing, as she tells Justin, her father, I can tell you feel better. The house is very still, he says, sounding like a stroke victim. The boys have gone into Collinsport, says Melanie, kneeling at his feet, everything is all right, Papa--I would tell you if it weren't. You comfort me, he says haltingly. You mustn't say that, she says-- Morgan and Gabriel wouldn't like it--they are your real sons, and I... You are my daughter, he assures her. I wonder whose daughter I truly am, she says, and what I would have been like if I'd grown up with them--if you had not adopted me. Justin says, if you had not...this house... She rests her head in his lap--whatever has happened, she says, it's been worth it, being here with you. You saved my life, he says. Don't say that, she pleads, rising to her feet, don't--you'll upset yourself, and you mustn't.[/spoiler]