That was the reason he had not married again.
But he was devoted to his boy in a quiet way.

He was the sort of man who is adored by children, animals, servants and women.

Tall, strong and handsome, with intelligence beyond the average, yet with nothing alarming about him, good-humoured about trifles, jealous in matters of love--perhaps that is, after all, the type women really like best.

It is sheer nonsense to say that women enjoy being tyrannised over.

No doubt there are some who would rather be bullied than ignored.