You think yourself very docile because I have conquered you; but you retain some shadow even in the light in which I have been able to train you and I find in you a certain cruelty that takes too great a pleasure in men's weaknesses....

Arielle.

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life....

Merlin.

What will happen if he yields?...

Arielle.

He will yield: it is written. The question is if Joyzelle's love will surmount the proof.

Merlin.

And do you not know?

Arielle.