"It’s not our feelings I’m concerned with, Jack," Archangel said softly. "You get so occupied with everything that’s going on around you that you don’t take your own feelings into consideration. Just like this morning: you were almost ready to believe that Emma would have it better with someone else than with you. You didn’t even consider that someone else might be worse than she could ever have it with you. You talked about the way Emma was young enough that she wouldn’t know the difference if someone else raised her. But someone would know the difference. You would know."