"And may I ask what you mean by that?" he asked sarcastically.
"That I'm going to demand my rights."
"Demand?"
"Exactly."
"Your rights?"
"The right to love——"
Norton broke into a bitter, angry laugh:
"Are you demanding that I marry you?"
"I'm not quite that big a fool. No. Your laws forbid it. All right—there are higher laws than yours. The law that drew you to me in this room twenty years ago, in spite of all your fears and your prejudices"—she paused and her eyes glowed in the shadows—"I gave you my soul and body then——"
"Gifts I never sought——"