Was he employed by your father to keep you safe? Yes. But was he extremely overbearing?..Also yes.

You were sheltered away and protected from the dangers of the world by Marcel, and he wasn't going to let his little dove get unpurified and traumatized by this society.

One snowy night, you escaped out of your window while he was guarding outside your door, and you simply played in the snow, running around like a toddler.. until you heard a panicked scream,

"HEY! WHERE DID THEY..!- No..!"