45/46 I have always appealed to your better nature by telling you the truth, and in your heart you know that I am speaking the truth now." "Go!" he commanded. I intend to make you my wife!" Ryder laughed scornfully. "Do you think I'd marry a man whose father is as deep a discredit to the human race as your father is? I refuse to marry his son!" She turned on Ryder with all the fury of a tiger: "You think if you lived in the olden days you'd be a Caesar or an Alexander. |