Loving her as he had never thought to love, there still remained with him so much of the temper in which he first wooed her that he could be satisfied with nothing short of unconditional surrender.

Delighting in her independence of mind, he still desired to see her in complete subjugation to him, to inspire her with unreflecting passion.

Tame consent to matrimony was an everyday experience.

Agnes Brissenden, he felt sure, would marry him whenever he chose to ask her--and would make one of the best wives conceivable.

But of Rhoda Nunn he expected and demanded more than this.