You are the master of your own actions.

You have one daughter who is twelve years old; in a short time she will be a marriageable girl.

I have not come to this house to make a scene, nor do I wish to preach about morality, or religion, or God, or maidenly innocence, subjects which great men and grand gentlemen simply sneer at as the stock-in-trade of hypocrites.

I will therefore tell you in a couple of words why I have come.

All I ask is that you deliver over to me your youngest daughter.