Question

what were the circumstances that forced Kezia to change her opinion about her father?

Answer 1

When Kezia was alone in her house, but under Alice the cook she was afraid to sleep alone, as she usually slept with her grandmother.
When she tried to sleep, she dreamt about a butcher with a knife which merely scared her and she started to call her grandmother but found her father beside her bed. Her father picked her up and made her sleep beside him.
Kezia's father slept before her and she understood that her father was very much tired to be like her neighbour. She also had a feeling of protection with him. This all made her changed her feeling towards her father

Answer 2

she told Alice that she always had a nightmare in which a butcher came with a knife and rope in her hand. so she need her grandma. but when that old nightmare again came and she began to cry her father came asked her what the matter was. she told him about her nightmare and said that she want her grandma. then her father take her to his bedroom. this changed her mind . she came to know the tender part of his father. he works so hard that left him so tired to be playful like mr. Macdonald. she hold his shirt tightly and said that he had a soft Heart