The three appeals are logos, ethos, and pathos.
Pathos is an appeal to emotion, ethos is an appeal through your own credibility, and logos is an appeal to logic.
Logos is the answer you're looking for.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "•he intends to take her as his second wife." "she is a superior woman" these lines most likely reveal about fathers feelings for miss whitlaw is that •he intends to take her as his second wife.