He evidently had orders not to touch me, for he was in a great panic of mind, as he had reason to be, because on Kara's return he discovered the state of my face, started an enquiry and had Salvolio taken to the courtyard in the true eastern style and bastinadoed until his feet were pulp.
"You may be sure the man hated me with a malignity which almost rivalled his employer's.

After Grace's death Kara went away suddenly and I was left to the tender mercy of this man.

Evidently he had been given a fairly free hand.

The principal object of Kara's hate being dead, he took little further interest in me, or else wearied of his hobby.
Salvolio began his persecutions by reducing my diet.

Fortunately I ate very little.