Sharon Kay Penman - Eleanor: I'm tired, John, am asking you to keep this...

Eleanor: I'm tired, John, am asking you to keep this charade mercifully brief.. For my sake if not for your own. John: For your sake? There was a time when I'd have done anything on God's Earth for you, just to get to acknowledge I was even alive! But now? You're too late, Mother, years too late!