Whatever the others thought, he still believed that Eleanor's father meant to return.

Then, she remembered the magic words, the ones her father had almost never used, but meant every time he said them.

"And does my father mean to remain long in Paris?"

She just didn't think her father could have meant those words in that context.

My father certainly could mean nothing more by his request to me than what you say.

What his father meant him to know from it, he couldn't guess.

I hear your father means to make a doctor of you.

The 'broth' was beginning to see what their father meant.

And though this situation wasn't exactly military, she began to see what her father had meant.

"My father, I did not mean for you to know!"