I love you more.

You cannot guess--you shall see what I will do for your sake, and then you will understand." He uttered an incoherent exclamation, and his eyes dazzled her as he seized her in his arms and pressed her to him so that she could have cried out.

And suddenly he kissed her, roughly, almost cruelly, as if he meant to hurt her, and knew that he could.

She struggled in his arms, in an unknown terror of him, and her senses reeled.
Then all at once, he let her go, and turned from her quickly, leaving her half fainting, so that she leaned against the wall and pressed her cheek to the rough hanging.

She felt a storm of tears, that she could not understand, rising in her heart and eyes and throat.