"If this was a more normal affair, you’d meet the entire family. The wives would have doted on you endlessly and dragged you from one party to the next. I know you would have begrudgingly gone but would have enjoyed yourself regardless. There would have been shopping and you would have complained that I was spending too much money. I apologize that you will not get that. But I will give you anything in my power to give for the rest of your life."  