Frighten them, then convince them that telling their father would produce a worse outcome than staying quiet.

Four months of that, in his house, while he was in departure lounges.

“That is never going to happen,” he said.

“Do you hear me?

Not ever.

Nobody is sending you anywhere.

This is your house.

You will live in this house until you are old enough to decide you’d rather live somewhere else, and then I will help you move, and then I will visit you constantly and annoy you.”