She bowed her head, yet not quite in shame, for there was that in her eyes which made her appear as if his suffering was a gratuitous infliction.

But at this moment he was stronger, and he drew her eyes up by the sheer force of his will.

"I need no money now," he coldly declared.

"I need nothing--not even you; and can you fancy that, after waiting all these years for this hour, money would satisfy me?
Do you know," he continued slowly and musingly, "I can look upon you now--yes, at this moment--with more indifference than you ever showed to me?
A moment ago I loved you: now I think you horrible; because you are no woman; you have a savage heart.

And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you.