Your profession puts it in danger every day and I believe you capable of risking your life, when tired of land, for the slightest motive...." She paused again and then continued.
"Honor is worth more than life for certain men,--respectability, the preservation of the place that they occupy.

Only the man that would risk his honor and position for me, who would descend to the lowest depths without losing his will to live, would ever be able to convince me....

That indeed would be a sacrifice!" Ferragut felt alarmed at such words.

What kind of sacrifice was this woman about to propose to him ?...

But he grew calmer as he listened to her.