pater• I just don't want you having to face the pater only to find that she didn't meanhalf she said.• Aeneas is the pater, the ancestor, the proto-Roman.• If Pickles really does love you, maybe the pater would give her a decentallowance and you'd manage somehow.• Ever since the pater told her you might be going to marry Cora-Beth, she's been determined to win you back.• I can tell you one thing - the pater won't give you his blessing.• The pater was saying something to that effect only the other day.