"Thank you very much," she said.

"But--I think not." "No one will ever know," he reiterated.

"I will just set you down at your own door and go away.

Come, Lady Carfax!" His dark eyes gazed straight into her own, determined, dominating.

The high cheek-bones and long, lean jaw looked as though fashioned in iron.
"Come!" he said again.
She made a slight forward movement as if to yield, and then drew back again.