Of what use is it?
The effort has been made here; you see how it has succeeded." "Then you mean to go ?" "Not without sorrow and despair, since it will be our separation, the renouncement of all the hopes on which I have lived for ten years, the abandonment of my work, death itself.

You see now why, in spite of your gayety, I have not been able to hide my preoccupation from you.

The more charming you were, the more I felt how dear you are, and the greater my despair at the thought of separation." "Why should we separate ?" "What do you mean ?" She turned toward him.
"To go with you.

You must acknowledge that until this moment I have never spoken to you of marriage, and never have I let the thought appear that you might one day make me your wife.

In your position, in the struggle you have been through, a wife would have been a burden that would have paralyzed you; above all, such a poor, miserable creature as myself, with no dot but her misery and that of her family.