If novels are to be trusted, French parents and children speak together with much more freedom; on the whole that must be better.' She made no remark.
'My father,' he continued, 'is eminently a man of sense if I reflect on my boyhood, I see how admirable his treatment of me has always been.

I fancy I must have been at one time rather hard to manage; I know I was very passionate and stubbornly self-willed.

Yet he neither let me have my own way nor angered me by his opposition.

In fact, he made me respect him.

Now that we stand on equal terms, I dare say he has something of the same feeling towards myself.