Sometimes he read to her, and sometimes he dictated to her, calling her in to his bedroom, like Churchill with his secretaries, at one o'clock in the morning.
At 44, Mr. Thurmond proposed to his 20-year-old secretary, Jean Crouch, in an intraoffice memorandum he dictated to her.
"She is only supportive of the agenda that is dictated to her by Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the Brooklyn Democratic Party.
The Smarts did say that Elizabeth's captors had forced her to keep a diary whose contents were largely dictated to her.
One disc was devoted to the music of Rosemary Brown, supposedly dictated to her by Chopin, Liszt and others from beyond the grave.
" 'The Secret Doctrine' was dictated to her by a group of higher beings," he said, "what we call a spiritual hierarchy".
Sir Vincent, speaking from space, dictated to her a book called "A New Conception of Love," and when he got through informed her that she would die as soon as the book was published.
Fretton, now 34, on Friday told the commission Sandilands abused her for three years from 1987, touching her, beating her with a wooden paddle and making her sign obscene stories which he dictated to her.
The same day I heard of her death, a reply arrived from her, dictated to her daughter Brigitte, in which she apologised for her illness and regretted that it would pass too late for her to see us.
Her latest novel, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year, was dictated to her son Sean, and now she's celebrating 30 years of the Adrian Mole Diaries with a glass of pink champagne.
