[grasps his hand, pulling it away from his face, and dropping it.]

I won't watch that kind of pathetic indignity. And I don't consider this overpayment. There are very few things within my own nature that I do not know how to handle.

[a hint of a smirk, for the first time this conversation] Besides, no matter what the price is, I paid for your life and now, in a sense, it is mine. It is worth nothing to you, but I paid for it, so you will have to treat it reasonably.

[I am not beyond using your death to win previous arguments about your self-worth by any stretch of the imagination ...]