“I cannot refuse to see him if he comes calling. That would be downright rude of me.”
“Well I didn’t mean a right out no. I could say you are indisposed and that you would be able to receive him.”
“Why mother that would be a lie!”
“You are so naive! People like us should be associating with his kind. He goes off to the sea whenever he feels like it. Harriet Arch told me...”
“Don’t tell me you believe what that snobbish woman said.”
“...he was a bastard of a whore. I won’t allow you to be in the company of these kind of people. Not even if he has three hundred ships full of treasures.”
“But what if I love him?”
“What is love? It is only a idea that the poor as taking a fancy of. There is nothing of the sort.”
“You don’t love father? What did you get married then?”
“Why my parents desired us to be married. Your father’s parents also wanted us to be married. I personally find marriage detestable especially when they start to demand their rights.”
Elizabeth’s cheek colored a little and asked timidly, “Why is that mother? I heard that it is suppose to be a beautiful thing.”
Forgetting that she was talking to her daughter, she answered, “I don’t know where you heard that from, but I find it repulsive that they sweat and grunt the whole time. Plus, it’s rather painful. Sometimes I rather be a maid than to be married to your father. Oh dear, I have poisoned your ears. Forget everything I said. Oh look at the time, I must go call on Harriet again. Be a good dear and don’t bother the cook again with the cooking lessons.” Without saying anything else, she left.