Duchess Cecily: You should understand. He was barely eleven years old when his father died at the She-Devil's hand. Have you any idea?

Jacquetta: Indeed we do. I lost my own husband and my son in a similarly brutal and senseless manner. 

Duchess Cecily: Are we to measure our pain against each other? Are we to compete of who's suffered more?”

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