On this, Victoria was grimly determined. “I am anxious to repeat50... that my firm resolve, my irrevocable decision, [is] that his wishes—his plans—about everything, his views about everything are to be my law. And no human power will make me swerve from what he decided and wished! I am also determined that no one person—may he be ever so good, ever so devoted... is to lead or guide or dictate to me. I know how he would disapprove it.”
