Wallis punished his smallest misdeed like a schoolmistress, literally rapping his knuckles or rebuking him sharply. In their later years Edward's golfing partner Sandy Bertrand recalled how the Duchess often said: "Sandy, you are so kind to play golf with my old man - it must be so boring for you." When the hapless Duke interjected: "Darling, I don't think he's bored," she would snap something like "Of course he is".
