"Lucas caught me kissing a girl," she said, her voice so very quiet, "a half-blood girl from Beauxbatons whose family was visiting the Ministry. She was very pretty and we got along, I wanted to kiss her so I did. She liked it. He saw and..." she took a shuddering breath as tears welled up again. Tom waited. "Lucas saw and he told Father and when I got home later on he... he hurt me. He hurt me and screamed, and called me a queer and a stain on the House of Fawley and a disgrace."