It may have been presentiment, or it may have been the thought of her father's possible death.
"Don't let's talk any more about dying," she said.

"But tell me: Is that why you are making so many additions to the factory--because we are changing to a corporation ?" Josiah hesitated, struggling to speak to his daughter as though she were a young man instead of a young woman.

But heredity, training and world-old custom restrained him.

What would a girl know about mergers, combinations, fundamental patents, the differences between common and preferred stock, and all that?
"It would only confuse her," he thought, looking at her with love in his eyes.

"She would nod her pretty head to be polite, but I might as well be talking Greek to her." "No, dear," he said, at last.