In fact, she did not believe that her father could offer lasting resistance to her ardent desire in any matter.

Such an untoward happening had never befallen her.

Dorothy had learned to believe from agreeable experience that it was a crime in any one, bordering on treason, to thwart her ardent desires.

It is true she had in certain events, been compelled to coax and even to weep gently.

On a few extreme occasions she had been forced to do a little storming in order to have her own way; but that any presumptuous individuals should resist her will after the storming had been resorted to was an event of such recent happening in her life that she had not grown familiar with the thought of it.