"You'd just as well do it, as to wish it. Don't be a coward!" Her eyes burned with suppressed fire.
He looked at her with cold anger and his lip twitched with a smile of contempt.
The strain was more than her nerves could bear. With a sob she threw her arms around his neck. He seized them angrily, her form collapsed and she clung to him with blind hysterical strength.
He waited a moment and spoke in quiet determined tones:
"'I dare you—do you hear?'"
"Enough of this now."
She raised her eyes to his, pleading with desperation:
"Please be kind to me just this last hour before you go, and I'll be content if you give no more. I'll never intrude again."