"Thank you," he repeated, not knowing what else he could say. He knew what Granby would doubtless have wanted to hear, that he had made up his mind and that the waiting could end, but Laurence was honestly beginning to fear that such a moment might never arrive. Each time his mind seemingly arrived at a verdict, something new would happen to swing it in the opposite direction and Laurence was stuck right back where he was in the beginning. "I wish this could be easier."