It is his good fortune that she has such sense in business.

When Jean Jacques listens to her, he goes right.
She herself did not want her father to manage the lime-kilns--the old Sebastian Dolores.

She was for him staying at Mirimachi, where he kept the books of the lumber firm.

But no, Jean Jacques said that he could make her happy by having her father near her, and he would not believe she meant what she said.

He does not understand her; that is the trouble.