In a clash of wills with this man she would go to the wall.

If she were to influence him it must be wholly through womanly allurement.

There was that about Lassiter which commanded her respect.

She had abhorred his name; face to face with him, she found she feared only his deeds.

His mystic suggestion, his foreshadowing of something that she was to mean to him, pierced deep into her mind.