As though what he said could be true! Listen!" She spoke up more sharply.

"If results came as you liked, what difference would the motives make ?" "How do you mean ?" "Only this, Monsieur, that I am not so lofty as you think.

I might do something.

If so, 'twould need to be through some motive wholly sufficient to _myself_." "Search, then, your own conscience." "I have one, after all! It might say something to me, yes." "Once you said to me that the noblest thing in life was to pass on the torch of a great principle." "I lied! I lied!" she cried, beating her hands together.

"I am a woman! Look at me!" She threw back her shoulders, standing straight and fearless.