But she is a woman! She loved you and expected you that hour, I say.

Thus comes the shock of finding you untrue, of finding you at least a common man, after all.

She is a woman.
'Tis the same fight, all the centuries, after all! Well, I did that." "You ruined the lives of two, neither of whom had ever harmed you, Madam." "What is it to the tree which consumes another tree--the flower which devours its neighbor?
Was it not life ?" "You had never seen Elisabeth." "Not until the next morning, no.

Then I thought still on what you had said.

I envied her--I say, I coveted the happiness of you both.