"Oh, but your career is you!"
"You think I have sunk my humanity in ambition?"
"Well, you are in town on Bank Holiday!"
"In town to call on you!"
"You were so sure of finding me on such a day?"
She sent him a look which mocked him.
"But, seriously," she continued, "does not the passion for science in you dominate every other passion? For science—and what science brings you?"
With a sure hand she had touched his weak point. He had the passion to acquire, and through his science of medicine he acquired.
"You cannot expect me to allow that I am dominated by anything," he answered. "A man will seldom make a confession of slavery even to himself, if he really is a man."
"Oh, you really are a man, but you have in you something of the woman."