Could it be that his father had never loved her?
Had he even rejoiced in her death, since he showed himself so harsh towards those who loved each other, and who wished to live?
But he might well do all he could to become cold in the renunciations demanded by the Church; she would come back to haunt and to torture him, because he was willing to torture the child they had had, the living witness of their affection for each other.

She would always be there, so long as their son lived.

She wished to reappear in the children of their child for ever.

And he was causing her to die over again, by refusing to her son the betrothed of his choice, the one through whom the race was to be continued.

When a man had once been married to a woman, he should never think of wedding the Church.