'One doesn't know which she is most like, her father or
her mother,' Lady Cantrip said afterwards to her husband. 'She has
his cool determination, and her hot-headed obstinacy.'
She did show the letters to the Duke, and in answer to a word or
two from him explained that she could not take upon herself to
debar her guest from the use of the post. 'But she will write
nothing without letting you know it.'
'She ought to write nothing at all.'
'What she feels is much worse than what she writes.'
'If there were no intercourse she would forget him.'
'Ah; I don't know,' said the Countess sorrowfully, 'I thought so
once.'
'All children are determined as long as they are allowed to have
their own way.'
'I mean to say that it is the nature of her character to be
obstinate. Most girls are prone to yield. They have not character
enough to stand against opposition. I am not speaking now only of
affairs like this. It would be the same with her in any thing.
Have you not always found it so?'
Then he had to acknowledge to himself that he had never found out
anything in reference to his daughter's character.
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