How can we forget the madness and torture?

[He would like to! Forget some of it, anyway. A lot of it, actually.]

And I won't soon forgive him for leaving you as he did. But, you know that as well. [They've probably had that conversation before. A few times before.]

I guess sometimes, we even had a routine on the road. Everyone in their usual seats, the usual conversations... complaints... I suppose I didn't mind that part of it.