"The poor girl," relates her brother, "would play and cry, and cry and play, for long hours, under the immediate eye of her grandmother." For no shirking was allowed.
The truth would seem to be that Lady Washington was more severe with the young--always excepting Jacky and George--than was her husband.

He would often watch their games with evident enjoyment and would encourage them to continue their amusements and not to regard him.

He was the confidant of their hopes and fears and even amid tremendous cares of state found time to give advice about their love affairs.

For he was a very human man, after all, by no means the marble statue sculptured by some historians.
Yet no doubt Mrs.Washington's severity proceeded from a sense of duty and the fitness of things rather than from any harshness of heart.

The little old lady who wrote: "Kiss Marie.