Anger was mounting in him.

Why should his father be mopped up like this ?--and Pamela made unhappy?
'I'd jolly well like to stop it all!' he said, under his breath.
'Stop what?
You dear, foolish old man! You can't stop it, Dezzy.' 'Well, if she'll only make him happy--!' 'Oh, she'll be quite decent to him,' said Pamela, with a shrug, 'but she'll despise him!' 'What the deuce do you mean, Pam ?' Whereupon, quite conscious that she was obeying an evil and feverish impulse, but unable to control it, Pamela went into a long and passionate justification of what she had said.

A number of small incidents--trifling acts and sayings of Elizabeth's--misinterpreted and twisted by the girl's jealous pain, were poured into Desmond's ears.
'All the servants know that she treats father like a baby.

She and Forest manage him in little things--in the house--just as she runs the estate.

For instance, she does just what she likes with the fruit and the flowers--' 'Why, _you_ ought to do all that, Pam!' 'I tried when I came home from school.