"That's a good lad," she says, feeling as though she may be giving him too much credit, but... there's only so much she can do for a person, and Benedict's well past the point of being a child. If she ever thought about it, she'd be angry-- why does he get so many second chances when she never got any?
But that's the way of it, so she endures. And it's easier, when people smile and laugh. "Thank you for coming on this trip with us, lad," she says, "even if you didn't want to."
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But that's the way of it, so she endures. And it's easier, when people smile and laugh. "Thank you for coming on this trip with us, lad," she says, "even if you didn't want to."