Also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
Winnie's father (Victor Garber) is a rather distant man, asbefits the form for this genre, in which the women are plucky and the men are either sinister or inessential, unless they are cute teenage boys, of course.