She wanted to be comfortingin what she had to say, but it was just as important to be firm.
“I can understand you might find the idea a bit unsettling, really, I do. I can see where you might be feeling a bit squeamish about the whole thing, but I’ve been here before, and I’m telling you, I’ve given this a lot of thought, and this is the only way. That’s the way it is with family. You have to do what you have to do, even if it’s difficult, even if it’s painful. Of course what we have to do to them is going to be difficult, but you have to look at the bigger picture. But it’s a bit like when they said-you’re probably not old enough to remember this-that you have to destroy a village to save it. It’s something like that. Think of our family as a village. We have to do whatever it takes to save it.”
She liked the “we” part. That they were a kind of team.