Not for money.

Not for debt.

Not for shame, not for fear, not for anything.

There was no crisis in the world large enough to put that child on the table, and the fact that he had, even for a moment, in his panic, treated her as though she were — that was the thing Lauren could not get her mind around. You would give up her, she said, before you would give up your pride enough to tell me the truth.

You had it backwards, Ethan.