It was your will that triumphed over your natural impulse towards self-preservation.

Well, I will say no more about it, except this: If ever a man was bound to a woman by ties of gratitude and respect, I am bound to you.

You need not fear that I shall take advantage of or misinterpret your confidence." Here he rose and stood before her, his dark handsome face bowed in proud humility.
"Miss Granger, I look upon it as an honour done to me by one whom henceforth I must reverence among all women.

The life you gave back to me, and the intelligence which directs it, are in duty bound to you, and I shall not forget the debt." Beatrice listened to his words, spoken in that deep and earnest voice, which in after years became so familiar to Her Majesty's judges and to Parliament--listened with a new sense of pleasure rising in her heart.
She was this man's equal; what he could dare, she could dare; where he could climb, she could follow--ay, and if need be, show the path, and she felt that he acknowledged it.

In his sight she was something more than a handsome girl to be admired and deferred to for her beauty's sake.