" "But, for God's sake, which is better?--leave your child, or keep up this degrading position?" "To whom is it degrading?" "To all, and most of all to you.

" "You say degrading...don't say that.

Those words have no meaning for me," she said in a shaking voice.

She did not want him now to say what was untrue.

She had nothing left her but his love, and she wanted to love him.