And then there is the fact that his position and standing as a don and a clergyman (he was an ordained deacon) would be seriously jeopardized at the slightest hint of scandal. And the father of the Liddell girls was master of his college. No, I believe that while some aspects of his relationship with Alice seem very strange and possibly perverted to us who have seen or heard so much in our modern era of no-holds-barred sexuality, you have to consider Victorian sentimentality, much of which is almost incomprehensible to us today.