You have a great deal in you; a great deal of power.

I've been watching you very carefully, and I've come to the conclusion that you are a woman of power.

That's why I take it upon myself to talk to you like this; that's why it distresses me to see you going to waste--half alive.' Helen, her head still turned aside in her chair, looked up at the green branches above her, no longer even pretending to smile.

Mr.Kane at once startled and steadied her.

He made her feel vaguely ashamed of herself, and he made her feel sorry for herself, too, so that, funny as he was, his effect upon her was to soften and to calm her.