Have you not seen tonight that we are fated for one another?
It is your destiny, and trifling with destiny is a dark business.

Look at me.

Do you doubt my having absolute control of myself to bear whatever they put on me to bear, and hold firmly to my will to overcome them! Oh! no delays.' 'Yes!' she cried; 'yes, there must be.' 'You say it ?' The courage to repeat her cry was wanting.
She trembled visibly: she could more readily have bidden him bear her hence than have named a day for the interview with her parents; but desperately she feared that he would be the one to bid; and he had this of the character of destiny about him, that she felt in him a maker of facts.

He was her dream in human shape, her eagle of men, and she felt like a lamb in the air; she had no resistance, only terror of his power, and a crushing new view of the nature of reality.
'I see!' said he, and his breast fell.

Her timid inability to join with him for instant action reminded him that he carried many weights: a bad name among her people and class, and chains in private.