Love is a recurring idea. Every person wants to be loved, no matter who they are or how they fit in with society. Sir Philip and Lady Anna had a love to be admired, the kind of love that is rare and beautiful. However, their love created a child who is odd, an embarrassment to her mother. Lady Anna shuns her daughter, throwing her out of her beloved Morton upon discovering her strange sexual desires. Lady Anna could not accept the differences that made her daughter who she was and could not love a child who was so strange, so odd, as Stephen.