Can you take vengeance for a fault you have yourself provoked?
Can you decide without inquiry, condemn without evidence, punish without hearing?
Men do these things, of course, and women expect them.

But you--I do not say you would be ashamed so to act--you cannot do it, any more than you can breathe the air of our snow-mountains." "At all events, Eveena, I no more dare do it in your presence than I dare forswear the Faith we hold in common." But whatever Eveena might exact or I concede, the distinction between the wife who commanded as much respect as affection, and the girls who could at best be pets or playthings, was apparent against our will in every detail of daily life and domestic intercourse.

It was alike impossible to treat Eveena as a child and to rule Enva or Eirale as other than children.

It was as unnatural to use the tone of command or rebuke to one for whom my unexpressed wishes were absolute law, as to observe the form of request or advice in directing or reproving those whose obedience depended on the consequences of rebellion.

It only made matters worse that the distinction corresponded but too accurately to their several deserts.