[He always hates it when she manages to keep up with him.]

They need not seek out someone so ambitious. [After all, he had Adam to act as his young replica. He didn't exactly want his daughters to date people like him - but rather other Catherians whom he could intimidate and mold to fit his own plans.]

You don't consider that I could have started on something unrelated just to throw you off? If you must know, there have been no outright arguments. She simply has been - acting somewhat oddly as of late, to put it frankly.