"I do want to be your daughter!"
"And you want to learn how to be the best woman ever, don't you, Sweetheart?" she prompted.
In spite of himself, Mike nodded, his tenuous masculinity dissolving completely to the overpowering need to be loved. "Please, teach me to be a good girl! Teach me to be a good wife to Maurice! Teach me to be the woman that he can be proud of, one in whose company he can hold his head high! Teach me how to please him! Teach me to be his wife!"