"You lay out for yourself some plan or another in life, and then your object is forthwith accomplished.

You quietly follow your plans, and in the same way you expect that those to whom you give your advice, will follow it without wavering.

You are just like father.

You really are too precise." "I regard that as the greatest compliment I have ever received," answered Worse, smiling.
"But father was in many respects an old-fashioned and somewhat prejudiced man.

It was just these very modern ideas that you find so attractive, which were to him strange or even positively distasteful." She made this remark more for the purpose of drawing out Worse than because she wished to disparage her father.
"Consul Garman," said Worse, rising from his chair, "was a dissatisfied man.