He had married her for the sake of conquering her, attracted by the very coldness with which she had tried in her girlhood to repel him.

She had caught his fancy in those far-off days.
Her queenliness, her grace, had captivated him.

And later, with the sheer hunter's instinct, he had pursued her, and had eventually discovered a means of entrapping her.

He had named his conditions and she had named hers.

In the end he had dispatched the father to Canada and made the daughter his wife.
But his fancy for her had scarcely outlasted his capture.