"And daughterly affection from you is an adequate return," he said pleasantly.
Nettie had called him Pop and joked with him and almost flirted with him in a daughterly sort of way.
"I thought your daughterly instincts would be aroused," he answered, scoffing openly as he saw his advantage.
"You're not going into that hot kitchen again to-day," remonstrated Millie, planting a daughterly kiss on her cheek.
In a daughterly way, she placed the bunch of dwarf-roses in his bosom, and took very careful notice whether it pleased him.
