Her experience also involved being kidnapped to a frozen wasteland to learn magic in compelled silence under an unmoving sun, but Laertes isn't about to bring that up. "No," says Laertes. "Men can choose to treat you well, and haven't. It isn't that they're incapable of it; it's that they've chosen not to. And they may say, 'My station forbids me bestow my heart where I will,' or 'I feared to do thee injury by speaking the truth'--but those are lies and cowardice. Ay, even in Sagramore, it was a cowardly lie, and you know I love him as I do sunlight. If a man cannot treat you as you deserve, then it falls upon him to treat with you not at all."