For the first and last time David disobeyed her . Instead of going out , he strode around the table , caught Josephine masterfully in his arms , and kissed her . And Josephine , after a second 's hesitation , kissed him in return . Aunt Philippa and the Men I knew quite well why Father sent me to Prince Edward Island to visit Aunt Philippa that summer . He told me he was sending me there `` to learn some sense '' ; and my stepmother , of whom I was very fond , told me she was sure the sea air would do me a world of good . I did not want to learn sense or be done a world of good ; I wanted to stay in Montreal and go on being foolish -- and make up my quarrel with Mark Fenwick . Father and Mother did not know anything about this quarrel ; they thought I was still on good terms with him -- and that is why they sent me to Prince Edward Island . I was very miserable . I did not want to go to Aunt Philippa 's . It was not because I feared it would be dull -- for without Mark , Montreal was just as much of a howling wilderness as any other place . But it was so horribly far away . When the time came for Mark to want to make up -- as come I knew it would -- how could he do it if I were seven hundred miles away ? Nevertheless , I went to Prince Edward Island . In all my eighteen years I had never once disobeyed Father . He is a very hard man to disobey . I knew I should have to make a beginning some time if I wanted to marry Mark , so I saved all my little courage up for that and did n't waste any of it opposing the visit to Aunt Philippa . I could n't understand Father 's point of view . Of course , he hated old John Fenwick , who had once sued him for libel and won the case . Father had written an indiscreet editorial in the excitement of a red-hot political contest -- and was made to understand that there are some things you ca n't say of another man even at election time . But then , he need not have hated Mark because of that ; Mark was not even born when it happened .
Old John Fenwick was not much better pleased about Mark and me than Father was , though he did n't go to the length XXXXX forbidding it ; he just acted grumpily and disagreeably .
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