"We're taking everything that comes to us," he explained of his family's decision last year to move here from Indiana.

"I think it's the people," he explained of his decision to stay.

But I'll try to explain the circumstances of my final operation, if only by analogy.

"I want to test out the art," she explains, of her decision to bring work by 20 artists to Italy.

"This is our house," she explained of the top one, which was on graph paper.

"But he was drunk," she explained of the sitting that never happened.

Early in the evening, she explained her "rules of the road."

"Oh, yes I can explain, of course, but are you sure we will not be interrupted?"

"For me, the text is the most important thing," she explained of the resulting works.

That explains, of course, why we say yes to our children.