tommy

You see, we were able to give you something, something which even now no one will ever take from you, and we were able to do that principally by sheltering you. Hailsham would not have been Hailsham if we hadn__. Very well, sometimes that meant we kept things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you, I suppose you could even call it that. But we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods. Lucy was well-meaning enough. But if she__ have her way, your happiness at Hailsham would have been shattered. Look at you both now! I__ so proud to see you both. You built your lives on what we gave you. You wouldn__ be who you are today if we__ not protected you. You wouldn__ have become absorbed in your lessons, you wouldn__ have lost yourselves in your art and your writing. Why should you have done, knowing what lay in store for each of you? You would have told us it was all pointless, and how could we have argued with you? So she had to go.