...thank you. I know it's not in your nature to give your word, let alone for something you feel so strongly for, and I do appreciate it.
[She reaches across the table and rests her hand on top of his. Nothing about what he was doing, what he was promising, came easily. It only makes the fact that he was willing to do so all the more remarkable, and all the more noteworthy. For this if nothing else she'll not fail him again.]
You'll be informed, as much as is appropriate.
[A beat, a shrug.] I've come to terms with it for a long while, and it was more irritating. I'd be a terrible mother, now or then, and Robert, well. It was for the best, really. Sweetness fast turns to sour, yes?
[Action, July 27]
[She reaches across the table and rests her hand on top of his. Nothing about what he was doing, what he was promising, came easily. It only makes the fact that he was willing to do so all the more remarkable, and all the more noteworthy. For this if nothing else she'll not fail him again.]
You'll be informed, as much as is appropriate.
[A beat, a shrug.] I've come to terms with it for a long while, and it was more irritating. I'd be a terrible mother, now or then, and Robert, well. It was for the best, really. Sweetness fast turns to sour, yes?