“But his oaths could not save Stephen now from her neighbours, nothing could do that since the going of Martin – for quite unknown to themselves they feared her; it was fear that aroused their antagonism. In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.”

“But his oaths could not save Stephen now from her neighbours, nothing could do that since the going of Martin – for quite unknown to themselves they feared her; it was fear that aroused their antagonism. In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.”

— Radclyffe Hall