" You were different after your father died. She was wrong, of course. It was true that he’d changed toward her, but she had misinterpreted the cause. It wasn’t his father’s death and his ascension to the title the year before that caused him to shut her out the summer she came home and treat her as a servant rather than a friend. It was the fact that being friends with her had ceased to be enough, and anything more had never been possible. "
― Laura Lee Guhrke , Secret Desires of a Gentleman (Girl Bachelors, #3)