Are you invitin' me to rip into you. Are you honestly -- Stanford, I don't know if that'd sit right with me. It's kickin' a man while he's down.

[Not that the idea isn't massively tempting. There's so much he's wanted to say, so many times he's played out hypothetical arguments in his mind just to get the words out somehow. To really just let loose at Ford would be a massive relief.

It's just... he's still Fiddleford McGucket and at his core he's a kind man. It doesn't feel right to lay into someone who already looks so cowed. Who's planning to just roll over and take it. He'd almost prefer a real argument.]