Well, that's a relief. If the responses had been uniform but in the 'robots-are-not-people' camp, Ned might have been forced to have words with a few individuals. Even a mixed bag of results would have made him uneasy to a certain degree. But apparently, the town's strange trend of tolerance continues unabated. No one here - or next-to-no-one - sees Ned as a monster because of what he can do, and everyone is wise enough to grasp that Daneel is a person.

"That sounds about right to me." Ned reaches out for Daneel's hand, laces their fingers together. He says, "Or maybe you were a person the whole time but you just didn't realize it. Maybe it just needed a bit of time to develop.

"Children are like that too. At first, babies think they are the center of the universe. They need to learn that other people exist and have consciousness. Maybe it's like the reverse of that, with you. And kids will believe pretty much anything you tell them. So the way someone's brought up is a bit like their programming. But as they get older, and have more experience with the world, they can start to question those things. Certainty is for zealots and children."

He's rambling and he knows it, so he curtails that line of thought and asks, "So how are you doing, in light of all that?"