No power shall stop that.

If you presume to speak to her, I will stop you in the act.

If ever you seek to walk with her, I will drag you away from her; nay, more than that, I will make you act in such a way as to make you, to her, an object of derision." "But," I said, "if you possess such a power over me, which I do not admit, I will proclaim to every one in the house the villainous means by which you have possessed it.

I will make you an object of hatred." His light eyes gleamed with an unearthly glare.

"Think you I have not thought of that ?" he said.