Mina planted her hands on the counter, on either side of the Doctor. She'd tried the soft approach. Perhaps another was called for. Not a hard one. She generally reserved that for the girls under her care, for the doctors under her watch.

This was an exceptional man.

"Has it ever occurred to you," she asked, "that the best way to get back at these bastards is not to give them the satisfaction? Hmm? If they're trying to punish you, I can think of no better way than isolation. And you might be making it easy for them."