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Exception
His one regret was not stepping in soon enough, thus suffering the indignity of being lectured to by an insufferable peasant. There is no denying anymore that she is the most important in his life. She is all he has left of his beloved wife and he will protect her above all else. It goes against the grain to be indebted to the brainless greenhorn for that reminder and for that alone he is allowed to live.