I am sorry if you think you have made a bad bargain, for you will have to abide by it.

Perhaps some day you will change your mind again.
But it is not my habit to change mine.

That is, I think, all that need be said upon the subject." There was not the faintest hint of vehemence in his tone, but there was unmistakable authority.

Having spoken, he stood grimly waiting for her next move.
As for Nan, a sudden fury entered into her that possessed her more completely than any fear.

To be thus mastered in a few curt sentences was more than her wild spirit would endure.