User blog comment:IronRaphRa/The Relationship between Lincoln and his Sisters/@comment-28517097-20171202194930/@comment-31789809-20171202200732

That still didn't give him the excuse to take all of their buttering up though. He should've just said: "Stop trying to convince me. This will not change my mind. Now leave me alone!" in order to be as responsible about the situation as possible. If he did that, the sisters wouldn't think that their methods were working. Ergo, they would never think to sabotage each other and no conflict would arise.