To her prayer for the release of her husband, he answers that “his hands are tied”; but, moved by her devotion, so womanly, so wifely, so heroic, he yields so far as to consent that she, with her daughters, may share his wretched captivity.
This quote captures the emotional struggle of a wife advocating for her husband's release from captivity.
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