Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly.Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.
Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound
daughter, father, feelings, hurt, king, princess, unkindness, verbal-abuse