"What! daughter of Perseus and Terra, you are still in human shape?
Ah! then the gods themselves are lies!" She said nothing, but there was fear and rage in her eyes; and her heart beat furiously against his.
Presently he pressed her from him with a pressure gentle but steady.
"Have no fear, Diane, or Daphne, or whatever you may be pleased to call yourself.

I am a gentleman.

I will not take by force what you would not willingly give.

I have never played with a woman's heart nor with a man's honor.

And as for Catharine, I laugh.