Madamme Ybañez hurriedly stood up and lifted Jim up. She started crying as well. To see a man crying and kneeling down at their feet, was such a heart - wrenching sight. She may had felt bad for such a declaration of his love towards another woman who was not their child¡ another woman whom he was about to dissolute his marriage with in order to marry her treasured daughter, yet, she was not too hardened to ignore him writhing in so much pain.
How she wished that the woman he was in deep anguish with were her own daughter. How fortunate she could have been! The fact that she was not being loved by the man she was dying to get married to, was humiliating and painful enough. But her daughter was just too stubborn! if only she could be talked out of it. It was their fault that she became like this. It was because they were giving in to all her needs and wants that she could no longer accept any defeat.
" We are not as evil as you think,
