[ his words are careful, precise, but honest. Honesty is key when the web is not yet taut and tight around her to its fullest. She could always slip away, and then he would have to kill her. That...would be messy, metaphorically. ]

Will Graham says a lot of things in order to convince himself that the world order as it stands is right and his own nature is wrong. Who would you say has the final word, Abigail? Nature or Society? There is nothing wrong with your nature, nor his, only with the way society constrains you.