"You do know, don't you ?" she asked anxiously.

"To know the truth about one's self, that is the beginning of being strong." "You seem determined," he retorted, "to prevent my loving you." "Why ?" she asked.
"You are to make me strong in spite of myself, I understand.

But, according to your theory, the strong love the weak only.

Are you to grow weak, Grizel, as I grow strong ?" She had not thought of that, and she would have liked to rock her arms.

But she was able to reply: "I am not trying to help you in order to make you love me; you know, quite well, that all that is over and done with.