Chapter 469 Lori's Wonder:>90

• She paused, smiling, and I began to see where this was going, but I had to hear the end of it.
• "In the meantime, my grandfather was married-off to my grandmother, to satisfy family honour and do away with any 'scandal' and all that bourgeois blah-blah, but from the tone of his letters to various friends, and to his own father, one thing was glaringly obvious; he'd never stopped loving Lucy, nor did he ever stop believing he'd been cheated out of the life he was supposed to have, and forced into a more 'socially acceptable' marriage, all in the name of family honour. But he stuck with it; he never cheated on my grandmother, never 'played away', never once disgraced his marriage vows; he'd taken those vows, and he stuck to them, even though he couldn't see what was so honourable about abandoning the love of his life in favour of an 'acceptable' marriage; family pressure was an irresistible force in those days, and so much pressure was brought to bear on him he had no choice but to do what his family demanded."
• She paused and gently brushed my cheek, her eyes soft and distant, before continuing.