He asks why she would do such a thing, guessing right away that she intends to kill her father.
Therefore, when Mark Hall challenges us in a Christmas carol, nevertheless to consider whether our nation places more emphasis on the preservation of trees than the preservation of life, we must stop and reflect whether we have actually been lulled to sleep by post-modernistic thinking which aims to shift our personal truth from absolute to relative.
So I hardly feel a disconnect at all.