"Yes, I am. What of it? Beasts have emotions. Yours have either been cultivated out of you or you were born without any. I'm glad I am part beast. I'm glad you know it. The rest of me is human; and the combination isn't a very serious menace to civilization. But the sort of expurgated girl you are is!"
"Don't you think I'm capable of any deep emotions?" she asked. The smile had died on her lips.
"Maybe. I don't know."
"Who should, if you don't?"
He shrugged:
"Your husband, perhaps."
"Jim! I told you not to call him that!"
"Well, a spade is a spade——"
"Do you mean to be offensive?"
"How can that offend you?"