"Cheap!"
"Cheap. You won't even have to give me up. That's part of the bargain too. I can have a lover if I'll be discreet."
"You're kidding," Lennox said faintly. "Please don't, darling."
"No, I'm serious." Gabby watched him closely with solemn dark eyes. "You're two people in one. Everybody is, more or less, and it doesn't matter. But it does to me because I'm in love with one of you and not the other. I hate the one who built this life for you. I love the one who's trying to knock it down. He's the real Jake."
"You've got it backwards, haven't you?"
"You've got it backwards. You admire the wrong one. You're trying to protect the wrong one. I hate the one that's your favorite."
"But the letters? The crazy filth...?"
"I don't care. He's the one I love. He's filthy because he's never had a chance, but he's the real Jake ... the honest Jake. He's a man to be proud of; not the arrogant, hostile Jordan Lennox who hides him."
Lennox shook his head in bewilderment.
"Sometimes people fight to keep something alive when they should let it be destroyed," Gabby said. "That's what you've been doing. You taught me there are times when it's right to fight." She touched her eye. "I'll tell you about this some day. Now I want to teach you that there are times when it's right to surrender."