"She is young, and she made a mistake. She is suffering enough without you treating her like a shameful secret who has to hide in the back. The way you treat her I am not surprised she lies. Simon felt like he had to lie too and hide himself because he knew you wouldn't understand. And look how that ended up. I don't want to find out later that she found some way to get money elsewhere and runs to York to start over.' He frowned feeling emotionally exhausted.