23/26 Dorothy, who could weigh a woman,--being of the sex,--might have felt occasional misgivings as to her mother. She might now and again observe an insufficiency that was almost the deficient. But of her father and "Uncle Pat" she never possessed a doubt; the one was the best and the other the greatest of men. Hard and keen and never honest with the world at large, the love of those two for the girl Dorothy was gold itself. She was the joint darling; they would divide her between them as the recipient of their loves while they lived and their fortunes when they died. |