You've lorded it over me from the start.

I can't even have the management of my own daughter.

But I do think that after I've let you have your way in so many things, you might turn off that fellow.

You might let me have my way in one little thing, and you _would_ if you cared for me.

You know how liable I am to die at any moment of heart-disease, and yet you will prolong this excitement in this way." Now, there is nothing a weak man likes so much as to be considered strong, nothing a henpecked man likes so much as to be regarded a tyrant.