I couldn't help knowing.

Oh, Jeff, Jeff! is it as bad as that?
Do you hate me so badly as that ?" He made a movement of the arms that was curiously passionate, but he did not attempt to take her into them.

"I don't hate you," he said, in a voice that sounded half-choked.

"I love you--so horribly"-- there was a note of ferocity in the low-spoken words--"that I can never know any peace without you! And since with you it is otherwise, what remedy is there?
You love Hugh Chesyl.

You only want to be free to marry him.
While I--" He broke off in fierce impotence, and began to thrust her from him.