'Why ?' 'Because I couldn't help it,' she answered.
Francis looked at her with cynical curiosity.

'That sounds odd,' he remarked.

'Why couldn't you help it ?' 'Women are accustomed to act on impulse,' she explained.

'Suppose we say that an impulse has directed my journey?
And yet, this is the last place in the world that I wish to find myself in.

Associations that I detest are connected with it in my mind.