Chilton nodded, encouraging her intuitive steps. It was always a poignant thing to observe a scholar (or at least, one with scholarly interest) walk to her logical conclusion regarding a case study. This was important, a teachable moment.

"It wouldn't have affected as many people, been as remarkable a spectacle."

A spectacle that Chilton himself had enabled, but he removed his culpable responsibility. He controlled the narrative after White's death, and he wrote himself to be the concerned observer, the man who tried to prevent a travesty. A story easily penned and ardently flowing.

"He wanted it this way. This big."

Pushing, guiding. Gently.

"Needed it."

Emphatically.

"But he did not always -- it is surprising, sometimes, what people will become when they realize they want something."