I have thought of a way.

I shall give you some blank cards; you shall write on them, 'I think I should like to do so and so.' You shall be careless, and leave them about; I'll find them, and bluster, and say, 'I command you to do so and so, Bella Bassett'-- the very thing on the card, you know." Bella colored to the brow with pleasure and modesty.

After a pause she said: "How sweet! The worst of it is, I should get my own way.

Now what I want is to submit my will to yours.

A gentle tyrant--that is what you must be to Bella Bassett.