She struggled against him.
“But not now,” she said.
She saw the light in his eyes fix determinedly, and he nodded.
“Now!” he said. “Now!”
His yellow-tawny eyes looked down into hers, alien and overbearing.
“I can’t,” she struggled. “I can’t now.”
He laughed in a sinister way: yet with a certain warmheartedness.
“Come to that big room—” he said.
Her face flew fixed into opposition.
“I can’t now, really,” she said grimly.