[Howard Stark, forgetting to have fun? Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. Sometimes fun was all he ever seemed to have.]

I know he wasn't the same after the war, but none of us were. [Losing Steve was one of the hardest parts, but there was plenty more traumatic events in those days. She's seen Howard hardened and at his lowest, and while it would have to be a lot to make him lose his sense of fun, the more she thinks about it, the more it may not be so unbelievable after all.] I won't pretend to know what happened, because he's still very flamboyant as I know him, but I can see how he might have hardened over the years.

[Which is a shame. She hates to think of Howard changing that significantly.]