To hear him rage you'd not have believed that he loved Alima at all--you'd have thought that she was some quarry he was pursuing, something to catch and conquer.
I think that, owing to all those differences I spoke of, they soon lost the common ground they had at first, and were unable to meet sanely and dispassionately.

I fancy too--this is pure conjecture--that he had succeeded in driving Alima beyond her best judgment, her real conscience, and that after that her own sense of shame, the reaction of the thing, made her bitter perhaps.
They quarreled, really quarreled, and after making it up once or twice, they seemed to come to a real break--she would not be alone with him at all.

And perhaps she was a bit nervous, I don't know, but she got Moadine to come and stay next door to her.

Also, she had a sturdy assistant detailed to accompany her in her work.
Terry had his own ideas, as I've tried to show.

I daresay he thought he had a right to do as he did.