Maria

“You’re going to be fearfully unhappy,’ he said. He was trying to be nasty to her, but the attempt was a failure, for she could hear compassion in his voice. ‘Yes, I am,’ she said. ‘Would you at least . . . at least say you respect me for my decision?’ ‘No,’ he said without hesitation. ‘I don’t. I despise you for it.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth