In fact, there had been no love between them from the beginning.

The marriage had been solely a political arrangement.

Physcon hated his wife, and had murdered her son, and then, as if to complete the exhibition of the brutal lawlessness and capriciousness of his passions, he ended with falling in love with her daughter.

The beautiful girl looked upon this heartless monster, as ugly and deformed in body as he was in mind, with absolute horror.

But she was wholly in his power.