Ay my dear son Laertes has left me recently to Paris to extend his education and experience a new life. I pray relentlessly that he will take my advice, keeping it in his heart and put it to good use. For some reason I keep worrying that he will get in some sort of trouble or embaress us majorly to make others mock our ways. Ah how I fear dearly. But I am truly worried about my daughter Ophelia who is head over in heels in love with Hamlet. I feel surely she is just wasting her time with that stupid boy. All he is doing is just using her for his own good, and leading her on to make her think there is more to this but really this is just going to end disastorous. So I decided the best thing to do is to prohibit Ophelia from ever seeing that selfish boy again. I believe I did the right thing to protect my only beautiful daughter from all the evil in this wretched world.