It--it's more than I can bear." Her voice quivered, and she turned her face aside, unable to hide her emotion, but furious with herself for displaying it.
Nick said nothing at all to comfort her, and she bitterly resented his silence.

After a pause he spoke again, as if he had banished the matter entirely from his mind.
"Look here," he said.

"I want you to tell me something.

I don't know what sort of a fellow you think I am, though I fancy you don't like me much.

But you're not afraid of me, are you?
You know I'm to be trusted ?" It was her single chance of revenge, and she took it.