When you say aught against your mother, you tarnish your own life." "But why does she not want me to go with Mitsha ?" Okoya asked, and pouted.
"Don't you see why, satyumishe?
Don't you understand it?
Say knows Tyope; she mistrusts him and is even afraid of him.

Mitsha is a good girl, and your mother has nothing against her; but she is her mother's daughter, and that mother is Tyope's wife.

If Mitsha becomes your wife you will go and live with her, until Tyame hanutsh has a house ready for Mitsha.

You will even have to stay at the home of Tyope's wife.

Now I cannot say that Hannay, the wife of Tyope, is really bad; she is not nearly as bad as he, but then Hannay is silly and allows him to make her his tool.