One Day discussion

Sometimes it's so hard to understand a man, even if it's your own son. Is it just pride or like what his mother said "Sometimes I worry that you’re not very nice anymore."

Conversation between Dexter and his mother:
“You are staying the night, I suppose?”
He could stay the night, he thinks. Here is an opportunity to make amends. “Actually, no,” he says.
She half turns her head.
“I’ve got tickets for Jurassic Park tonight. The premiere actually. Lady Di is going! Not with me, I hasten to add,” and as he speaks the voice he hears is of someone he despises. “I can’t skip it, it’s a work thing, it was arranged ages ago.” His mother’s eyes narrow, almost imperceptibly, and in mitigation he quickly tells a lie. “I’m taking Emma, you see. I’d skip it, but she really wants to go.”
“Oh. Well.” And there’s a silence.
“The life you lead,” she says levelly.
Silence once more.

What Dexter's father reacted:
“Dexter, your mother loves you very, very much. And I do too. We always have and we always will. I think you know that. But in whatever time your mother has left to her –“ He falters, glances down as if looking for the words, then up. “Dexter, if you ever come and see your mother in this state again, I swear, I will not let you into the house. I will not let you through our door. I will close the door in your face. I mean this.”