Exultation filled her.

She accounted that she had conquered, and she gloried in the power her beauty gave her, a power that had sufficed to melt to water the hard-frozen purposes of this self-willed man.

The next instant, however, she was cold again with dismay and newborn terror.

He unclasped her arms, he drew back, shaking off the hands she had rested upon his shoulders.

His white face--the flush had faded from it again--smiled a thought disdainfully.
"You bargain with me," he said.