[Yeah, it isn't much of an excuse, but it's the facts. And the facts aren't much prettier, really. He's still a damned idiot, no matter what angle he comes from. But she met the Boudreaux family - albeit not Belladonna - and he feels like she might at least slightly get a picture of the background from his side from that.]

Didn't get much chance to find out 'fore I ended up here. But they way they were shootin' at us don't exactly make me t'ink the chances are too good that the arrangement's still on.