Is it hate? He saved your life--and that's how you came to know
him first, and now you would destroy him! He's a great man. He would not
bend to his father's will, and so he was left without a sou of his
father's money. All because he has a conscience, and an independence
worthy of the best that ever lived. . . . That's the soul of the man you
are trying to hurt. If you had a real soul, there wouldn't be even the
thought of this crime. Do you think he wouldn't loathe you, if you do
this ghastly thing? Would any real man endure it for an hour? What do you
expect to get but ugly revenge on a man who never gave anything except
friendship?"
"Friendship--friendship-yes, he gave that, but emotion too."
"You think that real men marry women for whom they only have emotion. You
think that he--Carnac Grier--would marry any woman on that basis? Come,
ma'm'selle, the truth! He didn't know he was being married, and when you
told him it was a real marriage he left you at once. You and yours
tricked him--the man you'd never have known if he hadn't saved your life.
You thought that with your beauty--yes, you are beautiful--you'd conquer
him, and that he'd give in, and become a real husband in a real home.
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