" I reached up to press a kiss to his cheek. "Do not be too angry with Father. He did not mean it not really."

"Angry? I feel rather sorry for him. We are kindred spirits," he observed with a wry twist of his mouth.

"How so?"

"We both suffer because you will not understand how utterly essential you are to our happiness. "

― Deanna Raybourn , The Dark Enquiry (Lady Julia Grey, #5)