He was steadily pressing her towards the bed.

"If you don't do as you are told, Biddy, you will be made," he observed.

"I am here to-night for a definite purpose, and I am not going to be thwarted by you.

So you had better take yourself out of my way.

Now, Isabel, you know me, don't you?
You know it is useless to fight against me when my mind is made up.