Ursula Winwood supported him.
"Yes, why ?" she asked.
"But it would be very interesting," said the Princess slowly, cutting her words.
Paul met her eyes, which she had hardened, and saw beneath them pain and anger and wounded pride and repulsion.

For a second he allowed an agonized appeal to flash through his.

He knew that he was deliberately killing the love in her heart.

He felt the monstrous cruelty of it.

A momentary doubt shook him.