And of course it's perfectly natural that I should be.

Wouldn't _you_ be interested in the man that was going to be your new father?
Well, I just guess you would! Anybody would.

Why, most folks have only one father, you know, and they have to take that one just as he is; and it's all a matter of chance whether they get one that's cross or pleasant; or homely or fine and grand-looking; or the common kind you can hug and kiss and hang round his neck, or the stand-off-don't-touch-me-I-mustn't-be-disturbed kind like mine.

I mean the one I _did_ have.

But, there! that doesn't sound right, either; for of course he's still my father just the same, only--well, he isn't Mother's husband any more, so I suppose he's only my father by order of the court, same as I'm his daughter.
Well, anyhow, he's the father I've grown up with, and of course I'm used to him now.