Do you think I am going to stand tamely by and see an innocent woman dragged down to your beastly level?
What do you suppose her point of view would be?
How would she treat the situation if she ever came to know?
I believe she would kill herself." "But she never need know! She never shall know!" There was a note of desperation in Dacre's rejoinder.

"You have only got to hush it up, and it will die a natural death.

That she-devil will never take the trouble to follow me out here.

Why should she?
She knows very well that she has no claim whatever upon me.

Stella is the only woman who has any claim upon me now." "You are right." Grimly Monck took him up.