It's certain that she would not have been satisfied with me.

Our romance came to nothing and was done with long since; there's now no woman who could rouse the feeling I have for my wife." He got up and leaned upon his chair, with his eyes fixed on Festing.
"When I told you I was going to be married, you showed your confounded supercilious pity! You thought I was making a fatal mistake.

Well, you're not a clever fellow, Stephen, but that was the worst blunder you ever made.

Marrying Sadie is perhaps the only wise thing I have done.
She has borne with my follies, hustled me when I needed it, and helped me to fight my weaknesses; and if there's any hope of my being a useful man, I owe it to her.

Now it's obvious that I can't draw comparisons, but I think you see where this leads." "I do see," said Festing, who felt somewhat moved.