"You needn't do anything to please me but what you're told."
"I always do what I'm told—when you tell me; but you only tell me by fits and starts."
"Then, I tell you now: you're not to go to the Thoroughgoods'."
"But they expect me. I said I'd go to lunch. They'll think it very strange if I don't."
"They'll think what they please. It's enough for you to know what I think."
"But that's just what I don't know. Ever since Diane went away—"
"Stop that! I've forbidden you to speak—"
"But you can't forbid me to think; and I think till I'm utterly bewildered. You don't explain anything to me. You haven't even told me why she went away. If I ask a question you won't answer it."
"What's necessary for you to know, you can depend on me to tell you. Anything I don't explain to you, you may dismiss from your mind."
"But that's not reasonable, father; it's not possible. If you want me to obey you, I must know what I'm doing. Because I don't know what I'm doing, I haven't——"