'Pon honor it is! Womanish!" "What else would you have a woman?
Mannish and raffish, like my Lady Ostermore ?" "I'll not listen to you," he said.

"Ye're not just, Hortensia.

Ye're heated; heated! I'll not listen to you.

Besides, when all is said, what reasons be these for the folly ye've committed ?" "Reasons ?" she echoed scornfully.

"Reasons and to spare! Her ladyship has made my life so hard, has so shamed and crushed me, put such indignities upon me, that existence grew unbearable under your roof.