But they do not get out of it so easily.
"Ah, if I had only had a mother--or even a father!" cries the heroine: one feels how mean it was of them to slip away as they did.
The fact remains, however, that they are dead.

One despises them for dying, but beyond that it is difficult to hold them personally responsible for the heroine's subsequent misdeeds.

The argument takes to itself new shape.

Is it Fate that is to blame?
The lady herself would seem to favour this suggestion.

It has always been her fate, she explains, to bring suffering and misery upon those she loves.