She was well aware that because he had no son he was determined that she should be unusually well educated for a girl.
It was due perhaps to a selfish desire to have somebody he could discuss his academic interests with.
It was something he could not do with his wife.
As Mena knew, her mother always listened attentively and praised everything he said, but at the same time he must have been aware that she had no critical faculty.
She was in fact not interested in the subject he was discussing, but only in him.
He had adored her.
Nevertheless he longed for someone he could have a good debate with. Someone who had the intelligence to hold and voice a different opinion from his own.
He found this in his daughter Mena.
He had therefore insisted that she should be educated as if she was
