"Things had changed."
"You should have taken him anyway!"
There was a dark silence.
"We have had this discussion before. I cannot give what is not mine to give. You cannot have what is not yours to have."
"He would have been."
"Would have."
"I will have him still!"
"Perhaps."
"Perhaps nothing, he will be mine!"
Another dark silence.
"We cannot change what is. You may have him yet, or maybe you won't."
"If it weren't for the interference of that little -"
"You know not of the things of which you speak!"
"I know exactly -"
"You know not! Begone!"