"Perhaps I am mistaken, but believe me, what I say, I say as much for myself as for you.

I am your husband, and I love you.

" For an instant her face fell, and the mocking gleam in her eyes died away; but the word love threw her into revolt again.

She thought: "Love? Can he love? If he hadn't heard there was such a thing as love, he would never have used the word.