So he was allowed to want them, but not allowed to get them.

No. Knock that off.

"We don't have to do anything you don't want to do," Duke said firmly. "I mean it. I just -- if you don't want to because you're worried about how I'll react. . . . That feels like something we can work on. But if you don't want to because -- because you just don't want to. We can do other things."