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Irene instinctively threw herself back, looking frightened; but she did not attempt to rise. His face was hot-coloured, his eyes shone unpleasantly; but before he spoke, his lips parted in a laugh. "Are you one of the women," he said, "who have to be conquered? I didn't think so. You seemed so reasonable." "Do you dream of conquering a woman who cannot love you?" "I refuse to believe it.
She was Jehane Saint-Pol, Jehane 'of the Fair Girdle, so called by her lovers and friends, to whom for a matter of two years this hot-coloured, tallest, and coldest of the Angevins had been light of the world. The check upon their greeting was the most curious part of a curious business, that one should have travelled and the other watched so long, and neither urge the end of desire.
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