I couldn't do it, and I am driven back to you.' 'I hoped we should not meet again like this, Mr.Dagworthy,' Emily replied, in a low voice, but firmly.

She felt that her self-respect was to be tested to the uttermost, but she was better able to control herself than at the last interview.

The sense of being passionately sought cannot but enhance a woman's dignity in her own eyes, and Emily was not without perception of the features in Dagworthy's character which made him anything but a lover to be contemned.

She dreaded him, and could not turn away as from one who tormented her out of mere ill-breeding.
'I cannot ask you to pardon me,' he returned, 'for however often you asked me to leave you, I should pay no heed.

I am here because I can't help myself; I mean what I say--I can't, I can't help it! Since you told me there was no hope, I seem to have been in hell.