He doesn't care about how long it might take her to tame her speech. She is not the Herald to him -- simply Betrys, his wife. Someone who has lost a child just like he has. Someone who's been afraid of this very thing happening since she first got pregnant. She's allowed to mourn it.

His own eyes are rather misty though he is trying to be strong for her sake. He'd be lying if he didn't say the news didn't hurt down to the core of his being though.

"I should have been here, I should of held back longer before going back to work."

Maybe if he had --

Maybe things would have been different.