Granddaughterly

Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him; but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and granddaughterly compassion on Julia’s part, we out[-]voted him.

Mabel had gone (it was a small service of granddaughterly duty, that had from long habit become an institution at Castle Roy) to her grandfather’s sanctum, with a cup of the beverage he loved, namely, a half cupful of weak green tea, filled to the brim with clotted cream.

I don’t think she can really care for him, except just in a grand[-]daughterly (what a horrid word to write!) sort of way.

But I felt I was missing something, a link to the older generation. I thought it would be nice to have an elder to talk to, someone who could lay a little life wisdom on me as I reciprocated with granddaughterly attentions.