“By God, don’t interrupt me! You’ll never be able to change what they say. You’ll never be able to stop them. The rumors will go on, and you can’t crush them, you can’t silence them. You can even kill a man, Justin, dozens of them, but the past will not change, and you’ll still be my son. Curse that fact if you wish, but you can’t change it. You’ll die trying… and that would break me as nothing else could, Justin.”