"To use you for his purpose, and then--to throw you aside.

Why"-- and he suddenly showed his clenched teeth--"he dared--damn him!--he dared to tell me so!" "He--told you!" Her lips spoke the words at last, but they seemed to come from a long way off.
"Yes." With suppressed violence he answered her.

"He didn't put it that way--being a gentleman! But he took care to make me understand that he only wanted you for the sake of his accursed picture.

That's the only thing that counts with him, and he's the sort not to care what he does to get it.

He wouldn't have got you--like this--if he hadn't made you love him first.