From you? No, not surprised. That's just like you.

[ he sounds fond when he says it. that's his little girl, just like her mother in so many ways.

then, with a huff of breath: ]

He got angry and bitter after everything. He'd been happy with how things were, so why would he have ever needed to know anything more? Ignorance is bliss, after all! But even then, he wasn't...

[ what he'd finally become. ]

I don't know what Heaven did to him, but he wasn't like that when he was alive. A pity. He could've been a good man.