It was beyond her ability to realize that a man may say he is the son of God, if it be that he has behind the words the power of the personality of a Jesus Christ.

Traill had the personality--the dominance behind him in what he said--that was all.

He might have told her that women were only the chattels of men, born to slavery, the property of their masters, and she would not have denied it to him.
"What in the name of God are women ?" he had said more than once in his life--"Is one of them ever worth all the while ?" And he thought he had meant it.

To a great extent, he acted up to it as well.

These are the questions that men of the type put to themselves over and over again--but there are Cleopatras to mate with Antonys, Helens of Troy and Lady Hamiltons who can snap their fingers in the face of such odds and win.