Even if she could stand up one day, she wanted to do it through her own efforts!
Not by letting others trample all over her dignity.
"Eleanor Bishop, this isn't the time to put on a brave front! Why won't you just accept someone's help?" he demanded. "You could be getting better treatment! You could be back on your feet sooner! Why must you insist on defying me at every turn?"
"Archie Lockwood, someone like you could never understand how I feel."
'He'll never understand what it feels like to be humiliated by the person you love most.'
'He'll never understand what it feels like to have your dignity carelessly trampled on by the one you love most.'
'He's always so high and mighty, so arrogant. A man like him could never understand how she feels.'
Archie Lockwood roared in fury, "That's right, I don't understand! All I know is that my woman will not spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair!"
'His woman?' Shannon Vance stared at Archie Lockwood in shock.
