Looks more brow-beaten to me....
Could be that for sure ... looking at her face above, they sure don’t look relaxed or like happy campers. He’s failing, he can’t quite understand it, but can’t ignore it.. it’s undeniable. He can only decide which dastardly, vengeful dictates he’ll serve up next to punish and show us who’s boss. May corpulent, pregnant bedbugs invade his nostrils .. only virtually of course.