Couldn't say what it was.

A man must command respect, not demand it.

                   
 

 

What did he have to do to command the respect of his family?

He tried to be to make to enforce to earn to protect. He wanted. For a moment he considered.

He pulled himself together.

He extended his open hands.

He clutched them into fists.

 

 I could barely hear the long stalks of loosestrife down the scarred walls