The Legacy Quotes

“Miles Hanson was neither an unreasonable nor an unkind man. As a banker, he had learned to be a realist. He had come to the difficult realization in recent years that the women of his family—his mother, wife, and youngest daughter—were singularly determined. He would not call them strong-willed to their faces. But if that did not describe them to a tee, he was badly mistaken. He had learned, sometimes painfully, that the consequences of resistance were more burdensome than to give his consent to their occasionally outlandish notions in the first place. It was not an easy lesson for a man to learn, but he was sufficiently a pragmatist to recognize the wisdom in such an approach. One could only hope that in the long run the greater good might somehow be served. If the Almighty had a hand in the thing as well—which he had to admit he often doubted where his wife’s schemes were concerned—then hopefully his own good intentions would allow God’s will to be accomplished. On this present occasion, it did not take him long to realize what the upshot would be for Emily to learn that her Scottish acquaintance had come all this way to see her and that her father had sent him home without allowing a visit. He would never hear the end of it.”
― Michael R. Phillips, The Legacy