"Do not say that! Child, I love you.

Do you understand ?" "Who could fail to understand, after the abundant proof you have afforded me of your sincerity and your devotion ?" "Do you rally me ?" he demanded, letting through a flash of the anger that was mounting in him.

"Am I so poor a thing that you whet your little wit upon me ?" "My lord, you are paining me.

What can you look to gain by this?
Suffer me to go." A moment yet he stood, holding her wrists and looking down into her eyes with a mixture of pleading and ferocity in his.

Then he made a sound in his throat, and caught her bodily to him; his arms, laced about her, held her bound and crushed against him.