Scorpius.
Your explanation doesn't make it any less bad. You remain unapologetic, even when we both know you don't have any right to.
You know it won't. And you also know that my happiness with the family is not the matter I'm speaking of, but of the absense of happiness in one other part of my life. I don't think you care much about such a thing, so I would refrain from speaking of it.
As you said, I can't have both. I have to be satisfied. I'm afraid that's all that needs to be said. Have a good time at the Ball, Scorpius.