retribute

Retribute, rē-trib′ūt, v.t. to give back: to make repayment of.—ns.

It's all very well to insist that there's nothing to retribute," ran a passage in one of the letters, "but the poor fellow is saying one thing with his lips and another in his soul.

Ena seemed to look on it at first as a retribution, but Archie insists that there never was anything to retribute.