"I couldn't stand that, so I joined the colonel in upsetting him.

Ah, he shouldn't have laughed at me!" And indeed she looked at this moment a dangerous subject for such treatment.
"I knew what no one else knew, and I could influence him as no one else could, and I had my revenge.

But now," she said, "it all ends in nothing." And she broke down, sobbing.
Then, recovering herself, and motioning me to be still, she went on: "You may think, after holding him at bay so long, I have little to fear from the colonel.

But it's different.

The President has no scruples; but he is a gentleman--as far as women are concerned.