" Disaffected, she feels the family needs a life-style-shaking "miracle" because it has "gone to pieces.A new future for mankind." He proposed hat Erik repeat the miracle, by using his magnetism power to move a small metal Nazi coin on the top of his desk...Perhaps you have no sentiment left for me.Lucy is incredulous, but the tables are soon turned when Lucy catches an orange in her hand from his gift basket and finds that it is stamped: "ORANGE GROWERS ASSOCIATION, CALIFORNIA.De Winter sympathizes: "How rotten for you." Her father would paint the same tree over and over: "He painted trees, at least it was one tree...You see, he had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing or place or person, you should stick to it.