" Don't you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me? For me there is one thing, and one thing only--your love.

If that's mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me.

I am proud of my position, because...proud of being... proud....

" She could not say what she was proud of.

Tears of shame and despair choked her utterance.