But you mustn't argue with your father.

He doesn't like it, and when he's annoyed everybody suffers." "It's true; but how illogical!" Grace remarked, and mused while she looked dreamily across the grass.
She was romantic and generous, and had learned something about social economy at the famous school; in fact, Osborn would have been startled had he suspected how much she knew.

Nevertheless, she was young; her studies were half digested, and her theories crude.

She had come home with a vague notion of playing the part of Lady Bountiful and putting things right, but had got a jar soon after she began.

Her father's idea of justice was elementary: he resented her meddling, and was sometimes tyrannical.