[He extends an olive branch and gets slapped with a rose bush. Or that's what it feels like. 'Do as I say, not as I do.' Monty holds down his temper.]

Know that if you hurt them, you would be hurting me, then. Our bonds are as much shackles as they are lifelines.

[As he's coming to understand here more and more.]

I did not mean the one between us to grow thorns. Perhaps it would be better to hold a conversation when the wounds are not so fresh.