The system. A different world indeed, where family could be so cold. As if to counteract that coldness, Rory reaches for Pippa's hand and brings it to his lips.

"For a while I thought my bisexuality might break my relationship with my mother completely," he confesses. "But she came around, difficult as it was for her Catholic soul to accept."

He squeezes her fingers and looks earnestly into her eyes. "I can't imagine you doing something so awful, that your family should be so unbending."