"You need guidance and control even more than most children of your age, and I should not be doing my duty if I left you without them." "I don't like to obey people that are no relation to me!" she cried, viciously kicking away a little heap of sand.
"No, you don't even like to obey your father," he said with a sigh.

"Max and Gracie together do not give me half the anxiety that you do by your wilful temper." "Why, can't I do as I please as well as grown people ?" she asked in a more subdued tone.
"Even grown people have to obey," said her father.

"I am now expecting orders from the government, and must obey them when they come.

I must obey my superior officers, and the officers and men under me must obey me.

So must my children.