"Remember, he is devoted to her.

He would never recover from the shock." "And yet the other night after the ball you said you were prepared to carry out the suggestion, in order to save yourself," he remarked with a covert sneer.
"Perhaps I was piqued that she should defy my suggestion that she should go to the ball." "No, you were not.

You never intended her to go.

That you know." When he spoke to her this man never minced matters.

The woman was held by him in a strange thraldom which surprised many people; yet to all it was a mystery.