"Then I'll run into them on the way; there ain't but two ways into the driveway. And if someone does come in, you go out the back and into the woods until I come back. Boyd can't be left to settle into his ideas, I have ta go talk to him before he gets his hairs too far up. You bein' there.. Honey, I wish it was simple enough of us talkin' him into understandin'. It's shit and I know it, but I also know him. Before he was what he is now, he hated the blacks and hated the jews and they're just .."

He gestures. He was going to say 'they're just people' but he worried that Athena might take him for saying she wasn't somehow.

"No one deserves that shit. Not the blacks or the Jews or the Muslims or you. What happens if you come and his guys surround the car? Puttin' you on his terf is dangerous, darlin', that's all."