You might have won, if you had, [ he offers, though the words seem to grate at him to speak at all.
No, he would not have cared for the Strangler more than he does now, but his hate might have consumed him instead of being held at bay as it is now. (It is a tall order, to ask a father to kill his own son, but there is nothing uglier than the Strangler in this manifestation, and no one for whom he feels more pity than Sara Connington.) ]
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No, he would not have cared for the Strangler more than he does now, but his hate might have consumed him instead of being held at bay as it is now. (It is a tall order, to ask a father to kill his own son, but there is nothing uglier than the Strangler in this manifestation, and no one for whom he feels more pity than Sara Connington.) ]