"Emily," he said to her at last, "why is it that you are so changed to me?"
"Papa!"
"Are you not changed? Do you not know that everything about the house is changed?"
"Yes, Papa."
"And why is it so? I do not keep away from you. You used to come to me every day. You never come near me now."
She hesitated for a moment with her eyes turned to the ground, and then as she answered him she looked him full in the face. "It is because I am always thinking of my cousin George."
"But why should that keep us apart, Emily? I wish that it were not so; but why should that keep us apart?"
"Because you are thinking of him too, and think so differently! You hate him; but I love him."
"I do not hate him. It is not that I hate him. I hate his vices."
"So do I."