I have been played with long enough.

You are here unbidden--unexpected.

You can consider that door locked.

Now tell me why you came." Lucille had recovered herself.

She stood before him, white but calm.
"Because," she said, "I am a woman." "That means that you came without reason--on impulse ?" he asked.
"I came," she said, "because I heard that you were about to take a step which must separate us for ever." "And that," he asked, "disturbed you ?" "Yes!" "Come, we are drawing nearer together," he said, a kindling light in his eyes.