He keeps learning more as time goes on and there is a large part of him that wants to question her entire family on if they understand that children need love and attention. No parent is perfect, even the Earl had significant flaws, but love and understanding were one of the large factors. He's going to start thinking ill things of her entire family soon enough. He just liked to form his own opinions on people, not just word of mouth.

His stare continues, a flick of worry bleeding into his emotions, but all of that disappears and he reaches out to pat her head like he always does, "When reading someone a story, you are just as much attentive to the person as you are the story itself. When they start to fall asleep, you stop and mark where you are so that the next night they don't miss a single thing. A book doesn't have to be finished in just one night."