"Well--it's true, John Mark.
You sent me to steal her from her lover, and I've tried to steal her for him in the end.

Do you know why?
Because she was able to show me what a happy love might mean to a woman.

She showed me that, and she showed me how much courage love had given her.

So I began to guess a good many things, and, among the rest, I came to the conclusion that I could never truly love you, John Mark.
"I've spoken quickly," she went on at last.

"It isn't that I have feared you all the time--I haven't been playing a part, John, on my word.
Only--tonight I learned something new.