"It needs a strong physique to endure exaggerated, nervous sentiment.

And now, please, let us perform less trying scenes." Then, with a low, cold anger, she continued: "It is only a coward that will dog a woman who finds his presence insupportable to her.

This woman cannot, if she would, endure this man's presence; it is her nature.
Well, why rush blindly at the impossible?
She wishes to live her spoiled life alone.

The man can have no part in it--never, never! But she has money.

If in that way--" He stretched out his hand protestingly, the fingers spread in excitement.