She had seen his dealings with other people, and she knew him to be a passionate determined man, hard as iron in his anger.
"I won't give him the trouble to turn me out of doors," Ellen said to herself.

"When I know his mind, and that there's no hope of turning him, I'll get away quietly, and find some new home.

He has no real power over me, and I have but to earn my own living to be independent of him.

And I don't suppose Frank will think any the worse of me for having been a servant," thought the girl, with something like a sob.

It seemed hard that she must needs sink lower in her lover's eyes, when she was so far beneath him already; he a lawyer's son, a gentleman by education, and she an untaught country girl..