"Because I knew you’d react like this! I don’t understand why you have so much sympathy for that horrid man. He was nothing! He claims to have been bewitched by my mother, and if he was that just shows he was a weak fool, and if he wasn’t he left me to rot in the orphanage when he should have taken me in! That man was a cad! A scoundrel! And if not for his arrogance I could have been raised in luxury, in a –"