Ugh, his laugh was annoying. Daphne wasn't sure if it was because he was drunk or if it was like that all the time. She hoped not.
"It isn't nonsense." Daphne was sick of it, having people tell her that her entire world was stupid, that everything she'd been taught for the past twenty-some years was a joke. She'd heard it before, from the same type of people, those who didn't belong to it. "You can learn to love someone. Many people are extremely happy with their marriages. Just because they're advantageous doesn't mean they're loveless." She had loved Seth, and she would have married him, she thought, if things hadn't gone sour, if he had just...