JOHN
What are these heroics?
NATHANIEL
I mean what I say. If need be I shall use brute force, financial force or any kind of force to free Jonathan from the misery that I endured in this house.
JOHN
You had everything you wanted.
NATHANIEL
Everything except freedom to think my own thoughts. John, some people are like reinforced concrete. Someone builds the iron frame and the wooden molds, then pours the cement and when it has hardened, the molds are removed and lo, you have a monolith—a solid unchangeable stone.
JOHN
You talk very well, Nathaniel, but I shall insist upon bringing up my sister's child in my way.