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”Violet: “You have spent so much time attempting to be your father. But you have forgotten the one thing that made him the man he was.”
Anthony: “And what is that, Mother? His ability to manage an estate? His skill at the hunt?”
Violet: “His heart. He loved with every fiber of his being. And he allowed himself to be loved in return.”
Anthony: “And look what that love did to you. I watched you break. I watched you disappear for years after he died. I will not subject myself, or a wife, to that kind of devastation.”
Violet: “Is that what you think? That love is a weakness because it ends in grief? Anthony, I was absent, yes. I failed you as a mother in my sorrow. But I would endure every second of that pain again, just to have had those years with your father. Do not choose a life of duty just because you are afraid of feeling.”