"Now I am said to have great influence over women--women trust me, believe me--I may even say look up to me--but I pledge you my word I am conscious of wielding an immensely greater influence over men.

There seems to be in my _ego_ the power to prevail.

Take Browett--most men are afraid of him--not physical fear, but their inner selves, their _egos_, go down before him.

Yet from the moment I first saw that man I dominated him.

It's all in having an _ego_ that means mastery, Aunt Bell.