She refused, by God, point blank, to obey her father.

She refused to obey the man who had given her life.

What did Wyatt do?
He was a man who knew what a child owes to its father, and, by God, Malcolm, after trying every other means to bring the wench to her senses, after he had tried persuasion, after having in two priests and a bishop to show her how badly she was acting, and after he had tried to reason with her, he whipped her; yes, he whipped her till she bled--till she bled, Malcolm, I tell you.

Ah, Wyatt knew what is due from a child to its parents.

The whipping failed to bring the perverse huzzy to obedience, so Wyatt threw her into a dungeon and starved her till--till--" "Till she died," I interrupted.
"Yes, till she died," mumbled Sir George, sullenly, "till she died, and it served her right, by God, served her right." The old man was growing very drunk, and everything was beginning to appear distorted to me.