[It's not so much a need for comfort right now as just getting it out and telling another person what happened so it's not festering inside her anymore.]

I think he did. I pray he did. [She looks down, focusing on her hands in her lap.] It was a duel, in New Jersey. Someone had said something insulting about his father and Philip took it on himself to challenge him.

He didn't even shoot at the other duelist when the time came. He fired into the air and threw away his shot because he knew how- [Her voice cracks, tears starting to fall freely down her cheeks.] He knew how disappointed Alexander and I would be if he didn't.