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Originally Posted by fee
Oh good Alisa, I thought I missed something in that conversation, that made QB come thru in shining armor.
I thought that QB was very much in control of the conversation (something I had expected  ) but not one single moment took she Margarita seriously as an adult. She handled and reprimanded her like a child. Of course Margaritas behaviour was erratic at best, her accusations and reasoning weird and childish.
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QB managed to block almost all of M. arguments with replies from your average principal. She didn't do anything to convince her niece that her arguments lacked any trace of truth. And in doing so she hasn't really washed her own hands clean, didn't she? |
Couldn;t agree more. This is actually what shocked me the most. Because in the end. Beatrix knew full well that there actually HAD been an investigation on her/the government's behalf into Edwin. Granted, not nearly on the level that Edwin alleges, but all the same, there was an investigation, totally unnecessary legally, but it was done. And Beatrix knew (instigated???) it.
I am surprised you all are so content with the tone of B. At best, QB's attitude and response remind me of when my parents (same nationality, same generation
--strongly disagree with some of my choices, although they've never sounded this condesending luckily! Or, yes, of a school principal who feels she's right simply because she has ages and decades on the other person!
It would have been classier of B. to have simply cut the conversation short. To say sth along the lines of: well, since we clearly don't see eye to eye on this one, let's continue this at some other, better point in time. Or something like that. instead of trying to evade someone else's peeve with you by telling them the devil has gotten in them. That just plain smacks of disdain, condescencion, haughtiness, snobbiness.