And then, when he was yours, body and soul, you turned him down! Turned him down--pretended you were surprised--you'd never meant anything! All the old rotten excuses a woman offers when she has finished playing with a man and got bored with him.

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I've no place for your kind of woman.
I tell you"-- his tone deepening in intensity--"the wife of any common labourer, who cooks and washes and sews for her man day in, day out, is worth a dozen of you! She knows that love's worth having and worth working for.