Mary Todd Lincoln:
[to Thaddeus Stevens]
The past is the past, it's a new year now and we are all getting along, or so they tell me. I gather we are working together! The White House and the other House? Hatching little plans together?
Robert Lincoln:
[Robert leans in quietly]
Mother.
Mary Todd Lincoln:
What?
Robert Lincoln:
You're creating a bottleneck.
Mary Todd Lincoln:
Oh!
[to Stevens]
Mary Todd Lincoln:
Oh, I'm detaining you, and more important, the people behind you! How the people love my husband. They flock to see him by their thousands on public days. They will never love you the way they love him. How difficult it must be for you to know that, and yet how important to remember it.
[Mary gives Stephens a slight, lethal smile. He holds the look; his poker-face yields to a barely perceptible smile, bemused and perhaps a little admiring]
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