"I hope so," Karen says, smiling in turn. It's nice to consider, even if she only knew Harold, and not as well as she would have liked to. Of the people in her own life, aside from Frank, who makes for less of a hypothetical when he's here in Darrow and acquainted with John himself, aware of their relationship, she can't think of many people whose opinion on the matter would actually have meant something to her. Ellison would have been thrilled just for her to be seriously involved with someone at all. Ben Urich, if he were still alive, would have liked John, probably for the same reasons he liked her.

"I think we've done pretty alright for ourselves, all things considered."