With a word you announce me wedded to you; with another you speak our divorcement.
And I, poor clod, suffer it?
The first, yes; but the last, no.

You see, I have fallen in love with you." She turned her clear eyes away from him and waited calmly till she could escape.
"You have spent your greatest argument in persuading me to be a king.
Kings, lady, are essentially tyrants, in these bad days.

Wherefore, if I am to be one, I shall not fail to be the other.

And you--ah, you! Will you endure the oppressor that you made ?" There was enough that was different in his manner and his words for her to believe that something worthy of attention was to follow.

She looked at him, now.
"This roof, since the alienation of John to my wife, is mine empire.
Within it, I am despot.