Perhaps he even convinced himself that it would be better for her.

Anyhow, he hid himself in her bedroom one night...
The women of Herland have no fear of men.

Why should they have?
They are not timid in any sense.

They are not weak; and they all have strong trained athletic bodies.

Othello could not have extinguished Alima with a pillow, as if she were a mouse.
Terry put in practice his pet conviction that a woman loves to be mastered, and by sheer brute force, in all the pride and passion of his intense masculinity, he tried to master this woman.
It did not work.