If the little god is blind, he is also stubborn, and has a way of his own.
"I can't, father!" Winnie begged.

"You must not ask it of me." "What?
You would not continue to go with him, knowing what I have told you?
You would not permit a drunkard to pay you attentions, or a man who is in the habit of going on wild debauches ?" "No.

But Buck is not that kind of a man.

You have simply been deceived." "I have given my orders," said Lee, with a sternness he seldom used in speaking to Winnie.

"I expect that they will be obeyed.