Let me tell you now--for it is as well that you should know it--that there is nothing--do you hear ?--nothing in this world that I cannot make you do if I so choose! But if you are wise, you will not challenge me to prove this.

It is enough for you to know that as I have mastered myself, so I can--and so I will--master you!" His words fell with a ring of iron.

The old inflexibly sombre demeanour by which alone till that night she had always known him clothed him like a coat of mail.

Only the grasp of his hand was vital and close.

It seemed to burn her flesh.
"I have done!" he said, after a pause.