'I couldn't stand that either, and wouldn't try.'
'I am no slave! I shall live where and how I choose.'
'When you have thought about it more calmly, your choice will be the same as mine.'
Trembling violently, she backed away from him. Harvey thought she would fall; he tried to hold her by the arm, but Alma shook him off, and in the same moment regained her strength. She faced him with a new defiance, which enabled her at last to speak the words hitherto unutterable.
'How do you think I can bear to see Hughie with those children?'
Rolfe stood in amaze. The suddenness of this reversion to another stage of their argument enhanced his natural difficulty in understanding her. 'What children?'
'Those two—whatever their name may be.'
'Wager's boy and girl?'
'You call them so.'
'Are you going crazy? I call them so?—what do you mean?'