She was quite sure that he would be very angry.

She knew that he was a peculiarly just man, and yet she thought that in this he would be unjust.

Had she been called upon to sing the praises of her father she would have insisted above all things on the absolute integrity of his mind, and yet, knowing as she did that he would be opposed to her marriage with Mr.Tregear, she assured herself every day and every hour that he had no right to make any such objection.

The man she loved was a gentleman, and an honest man, by no means a fool, and subject to no vices.

Her father had no right to demand that she should give her heart to a rich man, or to one of high rank.