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And there we could
never agree. It would make trouble--trouble that couldn't be avoided
nor dodged. It would be there with us every minute--and we'd know it.
You'd know I hated the things you stand for and the things you have
to do. ... No man could bear that--to have his wife constantly
reproaching him."
"I think," he said, "that your word would be my law. ..."
She sat silent, startled. Unasked, unsought, a thought had entered
her mind; a terrifying thought, but a big and vital thought. HER WORD
WOULD BE HIS LAW. Her influence would be upon him. ... And he was
master of thousands of her class. He would be master of more
thousands. ... If she were his wife--if her word might become his
law--how would those laboring men be affected? Would her word be his
law with respect to them? ...
She did not love him, but she did love the Cause she represented,
that her promised husband, Dulac, represented. ... Her father had
given his life for it. She had given nothing. Now she could give--
herself.


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