"So this is your gratitude, is it?
I am to give all and receive nothing for my pains.

Then let me make it quite clear to you here and now that that is not my intention.

I will be kind to you, but you must be kind to me, too.

The benefit is to be mutual." It was premature.

In his heart he knew it, but she had provoked him to it and there was no turning back now.