Before Finkle-McGraw had come to him with the idea for Runcible, Hackworth 
had spent a lot of time pondering this issue, mostly while carrying Fiona 
through the park on his shoulders. He knew that he must seem distant to his 
daughter, though he loved her so—but only because, when he was with her, 
he couldn't stop thinking about her future. How could he inculcate her with the 
nobleman's emotional stance—the pluck to take risks with her life, to 
found a company, perhaps found several of them even after the first efforts had 
failed? He had read the biographies of several notable peers and found few 
common threads between them.