Sure. When personal feelings are involved, it is hard to see it that way.

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I've been thinking a little about. . . a friend of mine said to me once, be gentle in your motives. Don't, uhm, think about who you want to punish. Think instead about who you want to save.

I want to save, uhm, Mollymauk. But I also want to save Rupert, and whichever of the three children from fall is caught up in this, and I suppose I want to save you, too.