From its lady mistress, the Greek, to the meanest slave, I have homage and subjection.

Even thou wilt be submissive to me--for having lost one wife through indulgence, I shall be most tyrannical to the one yet in my power!" She drew herself up in splendid defiance.
"I have not submitted!" she said.

"I will not submit!" "No?
Nothing stands in your way now but yourself.

Your supplanter hath removed herself.

And I shall make your submission easy." She turned from him and would have hurried back into the Greek's andronitis, but he put himself in her way.
"Listen!" he said, suddenly lifting his hand.
In the stillness which she finally was able to observe over the tumultuous beating of her enraged heart, a profound moan of great volume as from immense but remote struggle came into the corridor.
Through it at times cut a sharp accession of sound, as if violence heightened at intervals, and steadily over it pulsated the throb of tireless siege-engines.