He stammered excuses but she mistook his insistence, thinking that he was trying to lock her in.
"Captain, let me pass!" she said in an angry voice.

"You do not know me.

That kind of thing is for others....

Back, if you do not wish me to consider you the lowest kind of fellow...." And she pushed him as she went out, in spite of the fact that Ulysses was letting her pass freely, reiterating his excuses and laying all the responsibility on the stupidity of the servant.
She stopped under the arbor, suddenly tranquillized upon finding herself with her back to the room.
"What a den!"...

she said.