My honesty proven, what must have been my motive in staying here to take your insults, to submit to your boorishness?
I will tell you; you may believe me or not, as you please.

I was grateful to your father.

I gave him my promise.

He wanted me to make a man of you.
"When you first came here, and I saw what a burden I had assumed, I was afraid.

But I saw that you did not intend to take advantage of me; that you weren't like a good many men--brutes who prey on unprotected women; that only your temper was wanton.