"I'll give you one night to memorize 'The Face of Battle'. I'll test you at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. If you can't do it, I'll send you back to the Scotts." Edward Anderson said as he turned to leave.
Bella Scott grabbed his arm and smiled ingratiatingly at him, "Why don't you just beat me up instead?"
That would be better than memorizing classical texts, which would surely kill her.
"Bella Scott, you did something wrong and should be punished. I pulled you out of the Scotts, and you need to pay a price so you'll remember this lesson," Edward Anderson shook off Bella Scott.