Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.