Besides, he was proud of having a nice, pretty daughter to dispose of.

You were quite welcome to be happy so long as you did not do anything except what he approved of.

But the moment you claim your independence as a grown woman, the moment you attempt to dispose of yourself instead of letting him dispose of you! Bah! _I_ might have been _my_ father's pet, if I had been a nonentity.

As it was, he spared no pains to make me miserable; and as I was only a helpless little devil of a girl, he succeeded to his heart's content.

Uncle Reginald will try to do exactly the same to-morrow, he will come and bully you, instead of apologizing as he ought.