I wanted to know that you would be willing to do all these things, but I would never have let you do them." "I am willing to do them." "No, no." It was he who had her hands now.

"It was brutal, but I did it for you, Alice--for you.

Don't you see I was doing it only to make a woman of you?
You were always adorable, but in a coat of mail that would let love neither in nor out.

I have been hammering at it to break it only and free my glorious Alice.

We had to fight, and one of us had to give in.