"Some other fool would have stolen her away if I didn’t do it first." Father drove his index finger into the table. "This is what I meant when I said to you a few months ago that you must learn to take what you want. If you leave things to chance you will be disappointed and run the risk of losing. Your mother loved somebody else and would have married him. I couldn’t let that happen. I wanted your mother so I took her and I don’t regret it, and I never will." 