Mrs.Price was so blind as to believe that it was her husband's real interest in Robert's welfare that made him wish to send the boy away.

She soon found her labor as teacher irksome.

She employed a private tutor and again mingled with the lords and ladies, and became one of the sparkling lights of Greensprings Manor.
Hugh Price was kind and indulgent to her.

Her temperament suited his own ideas of living, and but for the children they might have been happy.
It is possible that Mr.Price entertained some fear that Robert would execute his threat and kill him, for though he often laid his hand on the slender cane as if he would like to use it on the boy, he had thus far refrained; but a crisis was coming.

Price not only entertained an aversion to Robert, but disliked Rebecca.