"Doesn't sound very fair o' them to do that, no."

But it's struck him, now, that for all the many months that he's known Swann, Jack hasn't been able to glean much information about her personal life -- besides, of course, the tabloid pieces that focused on the occasional drama between her and Jason. Color him intrigued, then, when she mentions other Capitolites 'owing their lives' to her family.

"If I could ask, then, what's the true story? I'm afraid I know little to nothin' about your family, meself."