[...] "Not the same thing at all! Sons can't always speak for fathers, any more than fathers can always speak for sons. In this case-" He broke off with his ugly old mouth open. Worth Gilbert, the son of divorced parents, with a childhood that had divided time between a mother in the East and a California father, surveyed the parchment-like countenance leisurely after the crackling old voice was hushed. Finally he grunted inarticulately (I'm sorry I can't[...]".