I have changed--I have changed enormously." "You have changed--in that respect ?" he asked her, and she heard in his voice that note of stubbornness which she had heard on that night that seemed so long ago--the night before her marriage.
She freed one hand from his hold and set it pleadingly against his breast.

"That is a difficult question to answer," she said.

"But do you think a slave would willingly go back into servitude when once he has felt the joy of freedom ?" "Is that what marriage means to you ?" he said.
She bent her head.

"Yes." But still he did not let her go.

"Stella," he said, "I haven't changed since that night." She trembled again, but she spoke no word, nor did she raise her eyes.
He went on slowly, quietly, almost on a note of fatalism.