I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.
I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.