And when you found I was not to be so easily bought as you imagined, you asked me if I were human.
I replied to you that I was human, and not above temptation.

Since then you have been trying--very hard--to find a means to tempt me.

But--so far--you have overlooked the most obvious means of all.

You have told me twice over that you will do anything in your power.

Do you mean--literally--that ?" He was addressing the face in the glass, and still his look was almost brutally emotionless.