It must have worn her out and broken her spirits quite a bit; eh ?" "She seems very miserable," conceded the woman.
"Do you find her hard to manage?
Does she show much temper?
In other words, do you suppose she'll put up a fight ?" Madame Cerise regarded him wonderingly.
"She is a good girl," was her reply.

"She loves with much devotion the man from whom you have stolen her.

I am quite positive she will never consent to become your wife." "Oh, you are?
Well, I intend she shall marry me, and that settles it.
She's unnerved and miserable now, and I mean to grind her down till she hasn't strength to resist me.

That sounds hard.

I know; but it's the only way to accomplish my purpose.