"We all do." Gently she set her hand over Melinoe's. "But your father is a strong man. He carries a burden that would have crippled his brothers, and knows the strength of endurance." She shook her head, "it wasn't right to need to make the choice. Not that it was right to steal your mother away, but she was promised to him. I love Demeter, but she can't see that. Nor will she listen to reason. Too caught up in her grudges."