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And then when he sought by that supreme conquest which seems so natural a thing to that type of man , to force her to love him as her master -- to have the sturdy athletic furious woman rise up and master him -- she and her friends -- it was no wonder he raged . Come to think of it , I do not recall a similar case in all history or fiction . Women have killed themselves rather than submit to outrage ; they have killed the outrager ; they have escaped ; or they have submitted -- sometimes seeming to get on very well with the victor afterward . There was that adventure of `` false Sextus , '' for instance , who `` found Lucrese combing the fleece , under the midnight lamp . '' He threatened , as I remember , that if she did not submit he would slay her , slay a slave and place him beside her and say he found him there . A poor device , it always seemed to me . If Mr. Lucretius had asked him how he came to be in his wife 's bedroom overlooking her morals , what could he have said ?