The old saying will come true.

I saved your life, and I shall bring ruin on you!" It is characteristic of Beatrice that already she was thinking of the consequences to Geoffrey, not of those to herself.
"Beatrice," said Geoffrey, "we are in a desperate position.

Do you wish to face it and come away with me, far away to the other side of the world ?" "No, no," she answered vehemently, "it would be your ruin to abandon the career that is before you.

What part of the world could you go to where you would not be known?
Besides there is your wife to think of.

Ah, God, your wife--what would she say of me?
You belong to her, you have no right to desert her.