"I would, and I do! It is all that you deserve at my hands."
"Is there no mercy?"
"None--from me. Go!"
"I will not go," cried Mrs. Belswin, in despair. "I will not go, I tell you."
Sir Rupert advanced towards the bell rope.
"Then I will order my servants to turn you out."
"But, Rupert, think. Kaituna will learn who I am."
"Better that than she should be contaminated by your presence."
The woman clasped her hands together, and then in a frenzy of rage dashed across the room to pull him away from the bell-rope.
"You shall not! you shall not!" she shrieked, her fierce eyes flashing with mad anger. "I will stay! I am a reckless woman! I love my child! I will not go!"