She accepted it calmly; and I think it was this calmness of acceptance that infuriated Jaffery.

If she had been likewise caught in the whirlpool of a mad passion, Jaffery would have had nothing to say.

But she did not (so he maintained) care a button for Prescott, and Prescott would not believe it.

She had promised to marry him.

That ideal of magnificent womanhood had promised to marry him.