Chapter 19

• Jade couldn't believe her father's attitude and found his words completely out of place. She didn't understand how he dared not only to think, but to expose the absurdity of those thoughts.
• "You're disappointing me, Harry Gosling," she said with a serious voice, "you know that there is nothing and no one in this world more important than you, and if I were to lose you, my life in this world would lose its meaning."
• She took him by the arm and sat him down in one of the dining room chairs, while she sat in another, bringing it closer to him and taking his face in her hands.