You don't know what it means for us old folks to be disappointed in our children.

Now, don't disappoint me, lad.

You be nice to that mother of yours, and keep on loving Elizabeth, and it will all come right, you see if it don't.

If it don't come one way, it will come another; you can take my word for it." As if Dad knew anything about it.

He thought then that every woman possessed a sweet mind and a loving heart; he thinks so now.