By his own act she was denied.

He had said Yea, when Nay had been the voice of heart and head, of honour and love and reason at once; and now (close up against her) he knew that he was to forbid his own grant.

He knew it, I say; but until he saw her there he had not clearly known it.

Go on, I will show you the deeps of the man for good or bad.

Not lust of flesh, but of dominion, ravened in him.