"Mom, what's wrong with me, exactly?"
Pauline Briggs snapped, "You say that kind of thing to your dad—what's he supposed to think of me? Won't he think I'm some faithless woman messing around with other men?"
"Mom, Dad passed away. He's been gone for many years."
Pauline froze for a second, then couldn't hold back her tears. "Your dad has always lived in my heart. Whether he's alive or gone, I love him all the same."
"Mom, Dad loved you so much, he'd definitely want you to be happy. You're still young. I can't bear the thought of you being all alone."
A companion in old age, a companion in old age—when people get old, they always need someone by their side. Let alone that Pauline is still young. Every time Sienna Johnson thought about her mother having to spend so many more years on her own, her heart ached.
So even though Sienna didn't want her mother to remarry, she still brought up the fact that Graham Robertson liked her.
