Caswall felt that if he could not achieve supremacy he had better give up the idea, so all his pride was enlisted against Mimi.

When they had been waiting for the door to be opened, Lady Arabella, believing in a sudden attack, had said to him in a low voice, which somehow carried conviction: "This time you should win.

Mimi is, after all, only a woman.

Show her no mercy.

That is weakness.