Yes, it is she who must bend, and then she may have some claim to hear from me what I too may have to reproach myself for in my acts or bearing towards her.

That is how it is, and that is how it shall be!" A hard, inexorable look overspread his face as he said this; but for a moment he appeared almost moved again-- "I shall speak kindly to her--be so gentle--forget everything.
"But bend she shall," he added; and that decision was evidently final..