It is no use blinking that.

Legally I have married her--God help us both!--in soul and spirit I have married you, and no other woman in the world!' 'Hush!' 'But I will not hush! Why should you try to disguise the full truth, when you have already owned half of it?
Yes, it is between you and me that the bond is--not between me and her! Now I'll say no more.

But, O my cruel one, I think I have one claim upon you!' She did not say what, and he drew her towards him, and bent over her.

'If it was all pure invention in those letters,' he said emphatically, 'give me your cheek only.

If you meant what you said, let it be lips.