If he hadn't allowed them to see her before, when they'd written her off as a lost cause and suggested cutting losses on her expensive medical care, then they would certainly never see his daughter now that she'd miraculously recovered. They'd had their chance years ago, before they'd dismissed her as a hopeless burden whose continued existence served no purpose beyond draining family resources.
They'd said those words in his presence, discussed her impending death with cold calculation about how to minimize the political and financial damage her passing would create, suggested that perhaps it would be a mercy to simply let nature take its course rather than prolonging the inevitable with futile treatments.
