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.
" 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....