And then he said, sharply, "But--you were going to marry her.

Why did you give her up ?" "I loved her," Lot said, simply.

His white face worked.
"But now--you--ask me to--" "I love her!" Lot said again, with a gasp.
Burr strode forward, quite up to his cousin, and grasped his hand warmly for the first time in his life.

"Before the Lord, Lot," he said, huskily, "'twas you, and not me, she should have fancied in the first of it." "It is neither you nor me, nor any other man, that she will ever love as he is," Lot said, shortly, straightening himself, for jealousy stung him hard.
"What do you mean ?" "Woman reverses creation.

She is a sublimated particle of a man, and she builds a god from her own superstructure, and clothes him with any image whom she chooses.