"The cause is not that," she said, "and, indeed, I don't see how the cause of my irritability, as you call it, can be that I am completely in your power.

What indefiniteness is there in the position? on the contrary..." "I am very sorry that you don't care to understand," he interrupted, obstinately anxious to give utterance to his thought.

" The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.

" "On that score you can set your mind quite at rest," she said, and turning away from him, she began drinking her coffee.