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Quote 12. "But you have always enjoyed punishing me—you have always been hard and cruel to me: even when I was a little girl, and always loved you better than any one else in the world, you would let me go crying to bed without forgiving me. You have no pity: you have no sense of your own imperfection and your own sins.” Explanation and Analysis. When Maggie meets Philip Wakem in secret, for instance, he harshly condemns her behavior as disloyal to the Tulliver family without listening to her explanations. In this passage, Maggie points out that Tom seems to “enjoy” having the moral high ground and punishing her for her supposed failings. Maggie is highly compassionate and empathetic, and she tends to keenly feel the pain of others. Tom, however, has little compassion for those who he feels have transgressed his moral code. Although she admits that she has made mistakes, Maggie also suggests that Tom is wrong to think that he hasn’t made errors himself. She accuses him of having “no sense of [his own] imperfection.” This lack of self-awareness makes Tom less humble and compassionate towards others, because he does not see the flaws in his own behavior.