And Paul too drew himself up and looked at her in his new manhood.

And they stood thus for a while, beloved enemies.
"If you want the Truth--yes, I do love her," said he.
"Then how dare you ask me to be your wife ?" "Because the one is nonsensical and illusory and the other is real and practical." She flashed out angrily: "Do you suppose I can live my woman's life on the real and practical?
What kind of woman do you take me for?
An Amelia, a Patient Griselda, a tabby cat ?" Paul said: "You know very well; I take you for one of the greatest-hearted of women.

I've already said it to-night." "Do you think I'm a greater-hearted woman than she?
Wait, I've not finished," she cried in a loud voice.

"Your Princess--you cut her heart into bits the other day, when you proclaimed yourself a low-born impostor.

She thought you a high-born gentleman, and you told her of the gutter up north and the fried-fish shop and the Sicilian organ-grinding woman.