His anger hurt her with a pain she could not endure.

It was unbearable that Jasper should be angry with her.

In that moment she realized that she loved him--that the words he had spoken when unconscious of her presence were the sweetest she had ever heard, or ever could hear.

Nothing mattered at all, save that he loved her and was angry with her.
"Don't say such dreadful things to me," she stammered, "I did not mean to listen.

I could not help it.