She sulked?
'I am not a fallen lamb!' he said.

Evidently one had to be a shivering beast in trouble, to excite her to move a hand.
Through so slight a fissure as this piece of discontent cracked in him, the crowd of his grievances with the woman rushed pell-mell, deluging young shoots of sweeter feelings.

She sulked! If that woman could not get the command, he was to know her incapable of submission.

After besmutting the name she had filched from him, she let him understand that there was no intention to repent.

Possibly she meant war.