20/21 He has been saved, and he will know it." "But if he should come again ?" "I shall not spare him again. I felt it to be hard to do so once, because I so nearly love him! There are so many of them who are odious to me, as to whom the idea of marrying them seems to be mixed somehow with an idea of suicide." "Oh, Mabel!" "But he is as sweet as a rose. If I were his sister, or his servant, or his dog, I could be devoted to him. I can fancy that his comfort and his success and his name should be everything to me." "That is what a wife ought to feel." "But I could never feel him to be my superior. |