"'I want you,' he said. 'And when I want a thing, I get it. I never
take any refusal--understand that. You don't realise the situation.
It will be no disgrace to you. Women think it an honour to have me
love them. Think what I can do for you. You can have anything you
want. You can go anywhere you wish. I will never stint you.'

"I remember his going on like that for some time. And fancy, there I
was! I might as well have been in the grip of a bear. You would not
think it, you know, but he is terribly strong. I could not move. I
could hardly think. I was suffocated, and all the time I could feel
his breath on my face, and he was glaring into my eyes like some
terrible wild beast.

"'Mr. Waterman,' I protested, 'I am not used to being treated in
this way.'

"'I know, I know,' he said. 'If you were, I should not want you. But
I am different from other men. Think of it--think of all that I have
on my hands. I have no time to make love to women. But I love you. I
loved you the minute I saw you. Is not that enough? What more can
you ask?'

"'You have brought me here under false pretences,' I cried. 'You
have taken cowardly advantage of me. If you have a spark of decency
in you, you should be ashamed of yourself.'

"'Tut, tut,' he said, 'don't talk that kind of nonsense. You know
the world. You are no spring chicken.'--Yes, he did, Allan--I
remember that very phrase. And it made me so furious--you can't
imagine! I tried to get away again, but the more I struggled, the