He is peaceable as a lamb.

She is not to teach, but to spend the winter sewing on her clothes and bedding, and Father told her he would give her the necessary money.
She said so.

And I suspect he will.

He always favoured her because she was so pretty, and she can come closer to wheedling him than any of the rest of us excepting you, Agatha." "It is an innovation, surely!" "Mother is nearly as bad.

Father furnishing money for clothes and painting the barn is no more remarkable than Mother letting her turn the house inside out.