"I'm not saying I'm giving up," she snipped, her grip on her spoon tightening. "I'm being realistic." And logical. She'd just finished her third season and in those three years, not a single offer had been proposed to either her or Victor. And well, if anyone had sent something to their father, they might as well have not tried. Even if she still had plenty of years until she actually was a spinster (she supposed that was either a positive or negative to debuting early depending on how one looked at it.) she wasn't sure how she was going to accomplish something in another seven seasons when she hadn't had a hint of luck in the first ones where she was new and no one knew what a freak she was.

"For goodness sake, Victor! Father left because he couldn't even handle the idea of having to deal with me!"