"I had little enough to do with it, it wasn't my choice to hire you. But you belong here Ruth, you are an important member of this household. You say we've set you free and I can say the same to you. I don't know that I'll ever fully forgive myself for what I did but you've helped me to make peace with it as best I can." In her and Jacob he'd come to see something of a second chance. An opportunity to help a mother and child who had no true father.