He said it to Princess Sophia with the full and present quality of someone who is in the specific and difficult act of actually apologizing rather than the performance of it, and Princess Sophia received it with the full and complicated quality of a person who has been waiting for this and who is now receiving it and who is finding that the receiving of it is not the simple and clean experience that the waiting had sometimes imagined it would be, that it is more complicated than that, that it carries in it both the thing that was needed and the full weight of why it was needed and that those two things together are a complicated thing to hold.She held them.She held them with the specific and real quality of a woman who is not going to pretend the holding is simple and who is also not going to let the complexity of it prevent her from receiving what her father is giving her, from being present in the specific and important moment of a father apologizing to his daughter with genuine h