"At times ..." Laertes hesitates. He gathers himself as he slices bread and slides it into the toaster. "At times, I think I've tried to be a brother to my friends here. As though I could learn to repair the rifts between myself and my sister, if only I could make Annie or Galahad smile." With some self-deprecation, he admits, "I built a boat for Annie because I wished there was some grand gift I could give Ophelia--a token of apology that might make up for all the times I treated her as a child, and not a woman grown."