"Well, we were, yes. It wasn’t quite this good, but it was good. Till the Abolition. Till I started doing eighteen-hour days. I could have chucked it—your father wanted me to—but I thought, no, this is it, the greatest turning point I’ll ever see in my lifetime. If I want to live in the world, I have to do this first. So I did it, and I lost him. Both of you."