“So the Maryville children will be moved to institutions or foster homes not equipped or prepared to handle them. And in a year or so, some will needlessly be on the streets, some will be in jail. The media will have lost interest and the bureaucrats will go on mindlessly shuffling papers. And the governor can go on pretending to govern, the cardinal can go on pretending to lead and Smyth can sit in his office as executive director of Maryville Academy. Alone. With no children.”