At any rate, he crossed and seized her wrists and gazed fiercely down upon her.
"I tell you, I'm going to go straight, and I'm going to make a success of it! You'll see!" And then he added dominantly: "What's more, I'm going to make you go straight, too!" She made no attempt to free herself, but blazed up at him defiantly.
"You'll make me do nothing.

I'm going to be just what I said, and I'm going to make a success of it.

Just wait--I'll prove to you what I can do! And you--you'll be a failure, and will come slinking back and beg us to take you in!" They glared at each other silently, angrily, their aroused wills defying each other.

For a moment they stood so.

Then something--a mixture of his desire to dominate this defiant young thing and of that growing change in him toward her--surged madly into Larry's head.