She suggested that it might become expedient to place him in Cora's power. I think it may be necessary. The thoughts of a boy may be long, long thoughts, but he cannot persistently remember to fear a threatened catastrophe.
Youth is too quickly intimate with peril.
His own remorse and shame were wholly blotted from memory, and he could not understand why in the world he had been so afraid, nor why he had felt it so necessary to placate Laura. She looked very meek this morning. The strong hand was the right policy in dealing with women. Cora looked quickly up from her plate. She never thinks of anything else these days, he retorted.