He wasn't letting her off so easily it seemed. She sat obediently, not looking at him. "Ye're still a different class, ye have money and power in this world. I am from a workin' class family, I eloped with a man who didn't love me, and I have a child he never wanted until he discovered Jacob was a boy." She sat up straight and then flicked her eyes at him when he started to talk about how he didn't deserve anyone.

She tightened her lips for a moment, some emotion she wasn't sure she was familiar with toward him, a surge of... protectiveness, perhaps? She waited until he was done speaking and said in her soft voice, "Ye blame yerself for somethin' ye couldn't have predicted ta happen. Ye don't deserve yer self imposed imprisonment, Edward, and ye certainly are worthy of love. I see it in me boy's eyes every time he looks at ye, he loves ye. Yer brother loves ye. Yer staff love ye. We all love ye. Nothin' ye have done since I've known ye warrants ye bein' punished fer an accident. Do ye not understand I've come ta eat with ye every day and ye're slowly comin' back ta the world? I've been here fer ye since I was allowed in yer life and I've watched ye light up when ye are with us. She leaned forward and pressed her hand to his, her eyes searching his earnestly.

"And the reason I've loved ye is because every time I see ye light up, it's because ye heard -me-. Ye listened to me. Ye talked with me. Ye've only ever enriched me since the day I came here. I bet ye if I went ta tell yer brother I was leavin', he'd jump to yer defense and try and keep me on simply fer the fact he loves ye that much that he fears losin' ye because I'm coaxing ye out o' yerself. Do ye not understand how love works? Yes, love is grieving, but ye deserve ta love happily again and I don't wish ta ever hear ye say ye're not worthy again." Her cheeks were red by that point, she said this all in a slightly heated manner, passionately so.