And I can't tell you except this: I got in some trouble.

I'd rather not tell you what it was.

It broke my father's heart--and his confidence in me.
He--he died shortly afterward." "And you--was it your fault ?" "If you never believe anything else about me, Ba'tiste, believe this: that it wasn't.

And in a way, it was proven to him, before he went.
But he had been embittered then.

He left a will--with stipulations.