ATD question about Lake's speech (217)

[Paul Mackin]

On 4/26/2012 4:02 PM, Jonathan Post wrote:
> On page 217 we find Lake's speech to Reef:
> "How long before she'll see you or Frank again? You're off into that old
> world o' family vengeance, it has its claim on you now, you're both out
> lost in country you don't know how to get back in from. What do you
> think it's like for her, that kind of 'business'? Might just as well be
> dead already, the both of you. Damn fools."
>     He didn't know yet what was behind that passionate speech, nobody
> did, not quite yet.
>
> Here is my confusion. This speech seems to be implying that Lake is
> protecting Webb's killers, especially Deuce, but the burial takes place
> before Lake even meets Deuce, right? Is my chronology wrong, or do I
> just not understand the implications of that final sentence.


"Behind" here probably means "yet to come," rather than "the cause of."

A rather archaic usage.

P