"Is it necessary?"
"Necessary? Of course it is! You have made a most grave and serious and—and heartless charge against a woman——"
"Yes, a heartless one—against you!"
"I? Heartless?"
"Cold, deliberate, cruel, unfeeling, merciless, remorseless——"
"Mr. Langdon!"
"Didn't you practically tell me that no woman could endure the sight of a face and figure like mine?"
"No, I did not. What a—a cruel accusation!"
"What did you mean, then?"
"That—that you are not exactly—qualified to—to become an ancestor of the physically perfect race which——"