"I know that all you've done is because you love me——"
"How deeply, you can never know."
"I'm sorry if I forgot for a moment the respect I owe you, the reverence and love I hold for you—I've always been proud of you, Dad—of your stainless name, of the birthright you have given me—you know this——"
"Yet it's good to hear you say it!"
"And now that I've said this, you'd as well know first as last that any argument about Helen is idle between us. I'm not going to give up the woman I love!"
"Ah, my boy——"
Tom lifted his hand emphatically:
"It's no use! You needn't tell me that her blood is tainted—I don't believe it!"
The father came closer:
"You do believe it! In the first mad riot of passion you're only trying to fool yourself."