"Why should you need to eviscerate them? What do you care, what they think? What they say about you?" But something else. Something more pressing--they could get him admitted to the bar, couldn't they? A career-making case, waiting to happen. And Burr would represent him. Something the old Hamilton would salivate for--the chance to fight.

Ah, but. Hamilton sounds so heartbroken, at the prospect of being separated from Burr, Burr, the man who was responsible for his death in the first place. Pain had never been a reason to avoid connection, and yet--isn't that what he had done, most of his life? Casual connections, casual sex.

"If you asked Elizabeth, would she say you loss had been reason to avoid connection with you? We all die eventually, Hamilton. I will die, no matter your connection to me."