Humbert's The Awakening

His tactic is crystal clear: if the child is too scared to be separated from him, she will keep her mouth shut regarding anything that could compromise her (and by extent Humbert). He begins by mentioning that she is an orphan therefore all alone without him which is meant to scare her into not wanting to be abandoned. Moreover, the man is appealing to things that she enjoys like clothes and makeup and threatening to have those things removed from her. He is also implying that there is something wrong with her, something that only he will put up with, and that otherwise, she would be “analyzed” and “institutionalized” by the rest of society. Considering how he has already broken her at this point, she is most likely to believe him when he says