Because, if his father really had killed people for money, what did that make him?
Her father would have killed this man for what he was about to do.
His own father killed himself while in prison because of a drug deal gone bad.
Her father would have killed me as well, had he known I was listening.
A father who now had the strength to send away his son before he killed him.
Not by any man's hand, Father, none of us has killed or done violence.
Father had simply been killing himself with work, and she was going to put a stop to it.
"Your father will kill me if I take you into a battle."
"Only that my father killed himself and we left London."
"My father would kill me if he knew why I was here," she said.