But you know this row between him and dad makes it hard.

You know dad would do anything in the world for me--dear old dad! Of course I've told _him_.

And you'd be surprised to see the way he took it.

You know people don't know dad the way I do.
They think he's just a rough old chap, without any fine feeling about anything.

And mother and the girls leaving him that way has hurt him; it hurts him a whole lot.