{ In Depth Prompts }
Did you mean “everything relating to raising a daughter by himself” because boy howdy friend, let me tell you a thing. Weatherby is consistently second guessing himself on what is “best” for Elizabeth. He knows what he wants for her as a father – but without Theodosia to counterbalance him he doesn’t know what she needs as a daughter.
There are so many areas he simply does not understand. The nuances of femininity elude him, and while he naturally has women on staff to aid Elizabeth in understanding those, he knows there are things a young girl ought to be able to go to her mother for, rather than a nurse or governess or, heavens, one of the maids! He tries to be there for her in every capacity – and because of this, there have certainly been moments in which she has come to her father for advice and been met with – what can only be described as a look of sheer, existential terror.
He does his best, but he does worry he doesn’t do enough or that what he is doing is – inappropriate, or not what she needs. Short of marrying again to provide a mother to turn to ( an outcome he refuses to consider ) Weatherby has resorted on many occasions to tea with his daughter’s governess and doing what he can to learn all he can about what mothers want for their daughters, so that in some way, he can try and figure out what Theodosia might think is best as well, whenever he must make any sort of decision in regards to their daughter’s welfare.
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