In this short scene, william tells his sister, raina, that he misses her. He tells her that he cannot sleep with her, but that he can stay with her. She tells him that she does not have a mother and that she has a mother. william says that he will protect her, and that he hopes that during their time together, she will not experience the pain that he did. He then tells his father that he wants to tell him that his daughter, cora white, has been born into a "famous family" and is "capable and unspoiled" . He says that she is his ideal daughter, and he will risk his life to save her from the "hypocrisy" of the "annies" who are trying to take over the family business. He asks if this is a ruse to save the company, and says that the company is his effort, and those who are scheming to get into it must be stopped. He also says that if he had not let cora in, the company would have run out of money, and it would have had to be shut down