Marry him, and it will be good-bye to liberty--even such liberty as you have now--forever." Her face had changed.

She was very pale.
"I know all that," she said, speaking rapidly, with headlong impulse.
"But, don't you see how difficult it is for me?
They are all on his side, and he is so horribly strong.

Oh, I was a fool I know to accept him.

But we were waltzing and it came so suddenly.

I never stopped to think.