"What did you know?"
"I knew there was some power I had, if I had known how to use it."
"And didn't you?"
"I don't know. You see, I didn't try."
"You know how to use it now, I can tell you, with a vengeance."
"No. It isn't the same power, I think."
"At any rate you knew that it was touch and go with me? That if you'd chosen you might have done anything with me?"
"I knew that any other woman could have done the same."
"Then why not you?"
"I? I didn't want to hold you that way. I had some decency. I loved my poor friend too much to take him at a disadvantage."