Flashback:
"Gima, I am proud to appoint you as my advisor." Theoden said to me, bestowing that great honor on me. I was still not as happy as I should have been. All I truly wanted was Eowyn to love me as I loved her. Could that ever happen? She loathed me, and I did not know why. She loathed me.
"Milady, might I inquire something?" I asked her. She looked at me and nodded, reluctantly. "Why do you hate me so much?"
"Hate you? I do not hate you. Why, why would you think that?"
"Why? All the cruelty, your brother, your cousin."
"I….I…I do not hate you, but to be honest, you scare me."
"I scare you? Why do I scare you?"
"It is how you look at me. How you seem to know everything about me, that is unnerving and that is what I hate."
"Oh. I see." I said, "I never meant to scare you, I just…"
"Do not say you love me, I do not believe it! You do not know me enough to love me." She said, leaving me standing alone.
