[Her head tilts in a manner reminiscent of him, which is ironic.]

If you feel a need to, that's something else. I'm just saying that everyone makes mistakes, but one of the benefits is that your family will forgive you no matter what. No one will think less of you or stop loving you.

[So if he wanted to have a long drawn out talk in order to clear the air of it all? They could do that. But how could she continue being so upset with him when all the things she'd expected from her father were things he'd never even had, or known to want? When he'd lost his father so early on?

It didn't make sense to hold onto any of it, now.]