pg. 30
blandishment is "flattery intended to persuade"; something a little bit more extreme than a nanny saying "you be a good boy and take your medicine"
the phrase describes how Blodwen Page treats her sick husband Dr. Page:
"...broken and bedridden, he was at her mercy, subjected to a treatment which combined blandishment with a kind of jolly bullying."
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