POLONIUS: I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,
Have you so slander any moment leisure,
As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
Look to ‘t, I charge you: come your ways.
OPHELIA: I shall obey, my lord.
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3. A bullying and overbearing Polonius gets his way when he orders his daughter not to spend another moment of her leisure time with Hamlet or even talk to him. Despite Ophelia’s assurances that Hamlet’s behavior to her has been completely honorable, she feels she must comply with her father’s command. We see a father who is completely insensitive to a daughter’s feelings. This is foreshadowing of how he will later be only too willing to use Ophelia as bait to spy on Hamlet for King Claudius.