“When I first met your father, I was not attracted to him at all. He was too ostentatious about what he could get with all his money, as though simply having money allowed him do anything he pleased, even buy a person entirely. The more I withdrew from him, the more he longed to dominate me. So I told him that I would submit to him, but only on one condition: that he would marry me. And so he married me. He married me not because he loved me or cared for me, or because he really desired me passionately. No, the first night after our wedding he just slept through it, snoring. He’d drunk too much! After that he didn’t come to me very often because I didn’t like to do the thing he asked. But it seems that your father is pleased to have a young, good-looking wife, enjoys hearing his friends ad
