(Carl)
"I do. As I told James last night Ebenezer did a lot of bad things and there were times I feared he might get violent but he had never once stroke me."
"Well I understand both of your feelings and I completely agree with Martha about not wanting her son in the public eye. However our family is very notably in the public eye and we have a reputation to uphold. I am sorry but the reality is your mother was a pregnant divorcee from an average income so if she had been allowed into the family and those cretin reporters and vultures that call themselves paparazzi found out then our family as well as yours would have been dragged by them and your mom would have ended up being a woman who probably tricked a wealthy man into getting her pregnant so that she could divorce her husband and escape her mundane life in exchange for wealth"
"But that's not true" Mom said
