Sweet Cassandra

Would he ever marry her?

Cassandra''s happy homelife vanished with her mother''s remarriage
to a man Cass called the "General." He was an overbearing tyrant,
used to his own way, who considered Cass a nuisance. Yet he did
not hesitate to pass judgement on her boyfriends--and he absolutely
forbid her to marry Kevin Martin. And her timid mother agreed with him.

Leaving home would cut her off completel...