It shall not be taken from him.

"After all he was my father." She admits it, with the accent on the "was." That he is so no longer, he has only himself to blame.

His subsequent behaviour has apparently rendered it necessary for her to sever the relationship.
"I love you," she has probably said to him, paraphrasing Othello's speech to Cassio; "it is my duty, and--as by this time you must be aware--it is my keen if occasionally somewhat involved, sense of duty that is the cause of almost all our troubles in this play.

You will always remain the object of what I cannot help feeling is misplaced affection on my part, mingled with contempt.

But never more be relative of mine." Certain it is that but for her father she would never have had a past.
Failing anyone else on whom to lay the blame for whatever the lady may have done, we can generally fall back upon the father.