Ever since I first read the novel got intrigued by this scene, that struck me as wrongly described since there was a chracter that appeared out of nowhere and then wasn't explained no more... the scene is at the hospital, when Ann Norton is walking in, there's a man who says allerted him about a "woman with a gun"... then he says "where's the boy?". Now, who is the boy? and why does he vanishes in the air of the night?