"Attached to his daughter--entertaining an affection for her?"
"I should certainly say so, but at the same time not given to sentimental demonstration."
"As to character, now?" I asked. "What impression did he leave upon you?"
"That he was stern, self-willed, unbending. Hard to turn, I suspect, when once he is resolved."
"Like his brother," I observed, "Mr. James Rutland, who was on Layton's trial. Those traits evidently run in the family. Now, as to his wife?"
"A gentle and amiable lady," said Dr. Daincourt, "some eight or ten years younger than her husband; but her hair is already grayer than his; it is almost white."
"She and her daughter resemble each other," I remarked.
"Yes; and there is also on the mother's face an expression of devotion and self-sacrifice. Her eyes continually overflowed when we were speaking of her daughter."
"Not so the father's eyes?"
"No; but he showed no want of feeling."