She met his glance boldly.

Scarcely half an hour earlier she had been able to steal away his senses and make him subject to her.

She was ready to renew the contest, though she realised that a change had taken place in him.
"You talk of force to a woman!" she exclaimed, contemptuously.

"You are indeed brave!" "You are not a woman.

You are the incarnation of cruelty.