"How lonely? You want to feel love, and I think that's it. You don't even let me meet this man as your friend before you are already thinking so strongly and he's giving you clocks! You do move far too fast. " He looked down and scowled because she clearly didn't care what he thought. She cared about a dead man's opinion more and not the one who planned and was willing to risk his life to get them both freedom from their father. "He was a gentleman? What about you? No!" he raised up a hand to stop her. "I don't even want to know what you would have done." He reached for the mantle and snatched up the clock. "I am keeping this from you until I get to meet him. I don't agree to you two courting behind my back!" Pony spun on his feet to head towards his room. "You clearly have enough time if you are gallivanting with men when you should be taking care of your children."