better yet i 'd get him alone this weekend and make it real clear . i could see a lamp blazing from inside the bedroom . weve been following the continent , roughly . my father killed the man who did that to me . this time no one was there to greet him . `` and i pointed out that it was hopeless . he did n't understand what could be causing her to be so violently opposed to marriage , but he would break through her defenses and find out what it was . 