Francis Worcester Doughty

“ Several times each day Tige would pass suddenly into the poor girl's presence, and no matter how composed Helen might have been a minute before, the sight of her torturer at once threw her into an excited state, at the same time inducing a fear that caused her to retreat into a corner, quivering and gasping for breath, while a cold dew that sprang from every pore would bathe her entire body. ”

“ This was what Tige liked to see.
It indicated the state of Helen's mind, and kept her nerves constantly in a state of tension.
Few people have any idea of the frailty of the tenure which the human mind holds on reason, or how easily the mind can be warped or upset. ”