All this Theodosia said calmly and sweetly , without any trace of temper or irritation . Wesley still believed that he could persuade her and he tried perseveringly for a fortnight . By the end of that time he discovered that Theodosia was not a great-great-granddaughter of old Henry Ford for nothing . Not that Theodosia ever got angry . Neither did she laugh at him . She met his arguments and pleadings seriously enough , but she never wavered . `` If you go to Manitoba , Wes , you 'll go alone , '' she said . `` I 'll never go , so there is no use in any more talking . '' Wesley was a descendant of old Henry Ford too . Theodosia 's unexpected opposition roused all the latent stubbornness of his nature . He went over to Centreville oftener , and kept his blood at fever heat talking to Greene and Cary , who wanted him to go with them and spared no pains at inducement . The matter was gossiped about in Heatherton , of course . People knew that Wesley Brooke had caught `` the western fever , '' and wanted to sell out and go to Manitoba , while Theodosia was opposed to it . They thought Dosia would have to give in in the end , but said it was a pity Wes Brooke could n't be contented to stay where he was well off . Theodosia 's family naturally sided with her and tried to dissuade Wesley . But he was mastered by that resentful irritation , roused in a man by opposition where he thinks he should be master , which will drive him into any cause . One day he told Theodosia that he was going . She was working her butter in her little , snowy-clean dairy under the great willows by the well . Wesley was standing in the doorway , his stout , broad-shouldered figure filling up the sunlit space . He was frowning and sullen .
`` I 'm going west in two weeks ' time XXXXX the boys , Dosia , '' he said stubbornly .
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