Noble tilted his head and considered. "If they're a bad father without realizing," he said, "Then they're careless." Their father, certainly, had been careless — even Noble did not believe that he had maliciously lost all the money, but what difference did intentions make, in the end? That didn't count for anything; the Greengrass' pockets were just as empty whether their father had intended to screw them over or not.

"That doesn't make a difference, to me, with children."

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