Ah, you hussy!..." This supposed treason again aroused his homicidal wrath.

He raised his arm and foot, and was about to strike and crush the kneeling woman.

But her passive humiliation, her complete lack of resistance, stopped him.
"No, Ulysses ...

listen to me!" She tried her utmost to prove her sincerity.

She was afraid of her own people; she could see them now in a new light, and they filled her with horror.