I know it seems unreasonable to you, but that cannot be helped.
Mr.Errol, surely you are generous enough--chivalrous enough--to understand." "No, I don't understand," Nap said.

"I don't understand how you can, by the widest stretch of the imagination, believe it your duty to conform to the caprices of a maniac." "How can I help it ?" she said very sadly.
He was silent a moment.

His hands were still gripping hers; she could feel her wedding-ring being forced into her flesh.

"Like our mutual friend, Major Shirley," he said slowly, "I wonder why you stick to the man." She turned her face away with a sound that was almost a moan.
"You never loved him," he said with conviction.
She was silent.

Yet after a little, as he waited, she spoke as one compelled.
"I live with him because he gave me that for which I married him.