Cousin Philip is a tough proposition, as the American says.

There is no getting at his real mind.

All one knows is that it is a tyrannical mind!" All softness had died from the girl's face and sparkling eyes.

She sat on the floor, her hands round her knees, defiance in every tense feature.
Mrs.Friend was conscious of renewed alarm and astonishment, and at last found the nerve to express them.
"How can you call it tyrannical when he spends all this time and thought upon you!" "The gilding of the cage," said Helena stubbornly.

"That is the way women have always been taken in.