I've always felt that the only thing which could reconcile me to marriage would be marrying a MAN; and at last I've found one.

I want to tell you, Joan, that we've made an agreement to ask each other no questions about respective Pasts.

The black-fellows he has slain--the one jarring note between us--are never to be resuscitated.

The men whose hearts I have broken and VICE VERSA are dead and buried on the other side of the Equator, under a monument of inviolable silence.

Such are the terms of the marriage contract: and you in especial must respect them.