Trading her for her mother, Hugo threatens to take Rachel to the barn for discipline
"No, please don't touch my Rachel. I beg you," cried Olga. "I'll do anything you want just leave Rachel alone."
With the safety of her daughter at stake, Olga looked at her husband with fear while he looked at her with hatred.
"She's the one who gave you the Women's Rights flyer after all. She's the reason why you're here in the barn now," he said pacing back and forth in front of her while waving his arms. "My rage against your lack of respect and your total disobedience is more her fault than it is yours. I should be disciplining my daughter instead of her mother."
"No! Please don't touch my Rachel," cried Olga.
"It's not your fault," ranting and raving as if talking to himself before pointing his finger at his helpless wife. "You're just too stupid to know any better. Like mother like daughter, she's the one who takes after you in her disrespect and disobedience of me. Perhaps she's the one who should be tied to the horse stall, stripped naked, and beaten, and not you," he said red faced and wide eyed.
"Please don't Hugo. I beg you," said Olga through her tears. "Leave Rachel alone."
"Yes, perhaps she's the one who should be beaten, stripped naked, and whipped and not you," he said again, this time laughing a dirty laugh with the mere mention of tying his daughter to the horse stall and stripping her naked. "Exchanging her young, beautiful body for your old, wrinkled body, I can arrange that switch for you if you prefer," he said waiting for her response. When she didn't answer him right away, he looked to his son to instruct him. "Karl, untie your mother and go fetch your sister."
"Yes father," said Karl immediately obeying and ready to untie his mother until she kicked at him for him not to come any closer.
"No! Don't you dare touch my daughter," she said looking from her son to her husband. "I'll be good. I'll respect you. I'll obey you. I'll do anything and everything you want. Just tell me what you want me to do."
"It's too late Olga. I'm tired of having to drag out of your bed, pulling you down the stairs by your hair, and commanding Karl to carry you out to the barn to play these silly games of bondage and discipline with you. Instead of disciplining you, I should be disciplining your disrespectful and disobedient daughter."
"No! Please don't. I beg you," said Olga sobbing.
"Once I discipline Rachel, you'll follow her lead," he said. "Once I beat her, once I have Karl strip her naked, and once Karl forces his sister's hand and mouth to do unspeakable things to a brother's body maybe you'll--"
"No Hugo. You mustn't touch Rachel. Please," she said looking up at him with pleading eyes. "I beg you to leave our daughter alone."
"Karl?"
"Yes father," said Karl ready and eager to do his father's bidding so long as it meant he was to fetch his sister, tie her to the horse stall, and strip her naked before having his wicked, incestuous sexual way with her naked body.
"I swear to God that I'll kill you if you touch my Rachel," she said staring at her husband with hate. "I swear, I'll kill you in your drunken sleep if you touch her. I'll take my butcher's knife and I'll stab you in your black heart," she said spitting out her words as if her mouth was a knife.
"Kill me? Ha! You'll do no such thing Olga, because if you don't kill me, if I survive, you'll fear what I'll do to you and to your precious daughter. Even if you kill me, you'll fear what Karl will do to Rachel without me here to control him and protect her," he said with a sick laugh. "Do us both a favor Karl. I'm tired of listening to her. Untie your mother."
"If you harm my baby girl, I swear, before I kill you, I'll cut off your little cock and feed it to the pigs. Take me instead," said Olga pulling against her ties and staring up defiantly at her husband. "I'm ready to be punished. I'm willing to obey. Do with whatever you want with me but leave my daughter alone. She's the only thing good that I have left."
"Wait Karl," said Hugo when his son stepped forward to free his mother. Hugo stepped closer to his wife to broadcast his message in her face. "As the owner of this farm, as king of my castle, and as lord of my land, will you give me the respect that I deserve Olga?"
He offered her his hand to her lips for her kiss it as if he was the King of Germany.
"Yes, yes, I will my Lord," she said kissing his hand before blankly looking down at the ground.
"Will you submit your will to me and obey me?" He stood before her staring at her while waiting for her to answer.
"Yes, yes, I will my dear husband," she said nodding her head up in down as if she was one of the horses in the barn and as if she needed the motion of nodding her head to reinforce her words. "Whatever you want me to say, I'll respect your wishes. Whatever you want me to do, I'll obey your every command," she said in a soft and defeated voice. "I promise."
"That's better. That's much better," he said looking from his wife to his son with smugness. "Do you see Karl how men must treat their women for respect and obedience?"