I can't just stand here and tell you everything that's happened over the past two years.

[This was going to give him a headache. He sighed.]

I suppose... I should at least tell you this much, so you can stop making a fool of yourself. My father is dead.

[He could forigve Merlin for what he'd said, since he just hadn't known, but it wasn't something he needed a reminder of on top of all this other stress.]