Lorn found his own lips forming a smile as he saw her expression.  She was lovely and so easy to be around.  He was glad she was less stressed than the day he met her.  He looked back down to his daughter and caught before another bite missed her mouth with the spoon.

Looking back up to Karen, he shrugged.  "If people feel more at ease at home, they will do better work when on the job.  My pa told me that.  Though he said in the same conversation, that those that get lazy make their own consequences.  I then got a good lashing for not doing a good job in the stable."  He chuckled.  "I was a teenager and wanted more of my own free time.  Cutting corners on the chores I learned was not the way to do that if I planned to sit down for dinner."

He tilted his head.  "And please call me Lorn, at least when visitors are not here.  I don't ask the employees to be all proper with me just all us around.  I've finally got some of the boys in the stable calling me Lorn, at least when their parents aren't around."  He chuckled.  "Back home in Texas, they would laugh big time if they heard it.  Ma told me not to get big in the head about it.  I am getting somewhat used to it, but I don't want Heidi to think she is better than anyone else here.  She will be spoiled, that I know."  He raised his eyebrows thinking of himself and how he spoils her.  "But I want her to be a kind person and treat everyone with kindness and honesty." 

He had worried about it as he saw the children of some others he had met in his trading and social life.  Money and position could ruin a child.  He had been raised by good parents with a code of life that they had passed on to him.