Within weeks, he's picking Pita up from school (when one of the nuns there asks whether he ever sees «the hand of God» in what he does, he admits, «I'm the
sheep that got lost»), coaching her at swimming («There's no such thing as tough, there's trained and
untrained»), helping her with homework, and looking after her new
dog, a present from dad, who's feeling guilty about the frequent, unspecified trips he takes with mom.