"You've given me enough reasons to know that that fight wasn't somethin' you chose."
Arthur is both right and wrong. Trust, for Charlie, is something given in stages. He's trusted both Arthur and John at times when that was an enormous gamble -- and the gamble paid off with John, and at the very least returned his money with Arthur. But if he trusts Arthur, then trust doesn't mean forgetting what he said in the hospital, or to Yellow, even if Charlie has successfully avoided those questions until now.
But at the mention of dragging John into the middle, his face gets a momentary flicker of shame.
"Yeah. He don't deserve that."
He's exhausted, and badly wants to sit down, but feels pinned in place with Arthur standing there.
"Look," he says, a muted confession, "I didn't truly give a good god damn that you two kept it quiet about the Dreamlands. That ain't my business."
Re: what lies beneath
Arthur is both right and wrong. Trust, for Charlie, is something given in stages. He's trusted both Arthur and John at times when that was an enormous gamble -- and the gamble paid off with John, and at the very least returned his money with Arthur. But if he trusts Arthur, then trust doesn't mean forgetting what he said in the hospital, or to Yellow, even if Charlie has successfully avoided those questions until now.
But at the mention of dragging John into the middle, his face gets a momentary flicker of shame.
"Yeah. He don't deserve that."
He's exhausted, and badly wants to sit down, but feels pinned in place with Arthur standing there.
"Look," he says, a muted confession, "I didn't truly give a good god damn that you two kept it quiet about the Dreamlands. That ain't my business."