Passion met by passion results not in peace.

I should have soothed and yielded, and so won her back to reason.

As a man, I ought to possess a cooler and more rationally balanced mind.

She is a being of feeling and impulse,--loving, ardent, proud, sensitive and strong-willed.

Knowing this, it was madness in me to chafe instead of soothing her; to oppose, when gentle concession would have torn from her eyes an illusive veil.