"Know you not, from sad experience, that your husband is inaccessible to all gentle entreaty?
His heart is steeled to pity.

Solicit not that which is your right, and which must be conceded, whether he like or not.

Let him bend the knee to you.

Let him promise amendment, and implore pardon, and it will then be for you to consider whether you will extend forgiveness to him." Lady Roos looked as if she would fain interrupt her mother, but she was too much under her subjection to offer a remark.
"It is time to undeceive you, Madam," said Lord Roos, wholly unmoved by what was said.

"I am not in the strait you suppose; and have not the slightest intention of soliciting Lady Roos's pardon, or making any promise to her." "O mother! you see that even _you_ fail to move him," said Lady Roos, tearfully.