[his knuckles are clenched white on his rosary]

The idea... offends him. That he has never been. He is shouting, I can hardly hear my own thoughts above him! He insists that he has. That... that he was not born here, on our "miserable earth".

[slaps one hand against the side of his head as if to shake something loose]

There! I have told him! Are you satisfied? Be silent, now, in the name of God!