I can’t do anything that might scare her more than she has already been scared today. It wouldn’t be fair, and it won’t win me any favors. As it is, I’m going to have an all-out fight on my hands when I claim her. She won’t like it. She won’t like it when I squash her independence, or when I demand to know where she is and what she’s doing at every moment of the day. But it’s the way it’s going to be. It’s the way it has to be.
