She's terribly clever and up to date, and all the rest of it.

She's beginning to boss father, and very soon she'll boss all the rest of us.' 'Perhaps you wanted it!' said Captain Chicksands, smiling.
'Perhaps we did,' Pamela admitted.

'But one needn't like it all the same.

Well, she's rationed us--that's one good thing--and father really doesn't guess! And now she's begun to take an interest in the farms! I believe she's walked over to the Holme Wood farm to-day, to see for herself what state it's in.

Father's in town.