She looks up at him at last - her eyes red rimmed with the tears, the inevitable exhaustion of her hurt and fury - along with everything else. Her curls a tangled mess as they fall, her hands gripping tightly more in desperation than wanting to hurt him now.

"Then why would your brother say such a thing? Where anyone could hear it! It - I am humiliated-, everyone has heard it."

It is not the first time in her life, a great many things in her life she'd swallowed.

"You are all I have, and my pride with it."