You're right, Miss Wells, it's not. If that was truly them speaking to us, if they're really still here, then...

There may yet be a way to see them again.

[Aside from the obvious 'die and join them,' that is. He's not dumb enough to say there's a way to bring them back - only a fool would call him an optimistic man. But to see them, to speak to them, to properly say goodbye, before they leave this place for good? That would be a gift that many, himself included, never get to have.

He gives her a small smile.]

Perhaps that's where your photographs will come in handy.