Richard
Why?
Uncle Richard
Must I explain? We are met, after a long separation, in circumstances personally sorrowful to me, and I trust, to some extent, to you as well. We....
Richard
Yes, a long separation.
Uncle Richard
I admit, Richard, that from your point of view my attitude has not always been as—as considerate, perhaps, as you might have expected. But I have been a very busy man, and—
Richard
As far as I am concerned, uncle, I have nothing to blame you for; but my mother....