“Because you are the stronger?”
“Because I am the stronger—and because I am right,” he returned grimly.
“I admit that you are the superior brute,” she said with fierce passion. “But you will never break me to your wishes!”
“And I tell you I will!”
“And I tell you you will not!”
There was a strange and new fire in her eyes.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“I mean this,” she returned, and the hands that gripped her shoulders felt her tremble through all her body. “I should not expect you to marry a woman who was so unreasonable as to demand that you, for her sake, should give up your loved career. And, for my part, I shall never marry a man so unreasonable as to make the same demand of me.”
He fell back a pace.
“You mean——”