And he need not, she declared; she considered herself free to do as she pleased, and so was he; their love did not interfere with their duty toward anybody, and so it was immaterial if people found it out and talked about it.
Her utter disregard for the trammels of convention, her cool contempt for the opinion of others, filled him with horror.
"No, no, I could not look one of them in the face again." "But do you suppose that these people are any better?
You surely don't imagine that the man with the calves and his ravening wolf are married ?" "How can you say such things!" "Why, you big baby, one can see that at a glance.

He is far too nice to her for her to be his legitime." "That may be.

At all events he has had so much consideration for outward appearance as to pass the person off as his wife.

But we made our acquaintance here, under their very eye." "Wilhelm!"-- from her lips the name sounded more like Gwillem--"I should not know you for the same person.

Why, where is your boasted philosophy and stoicism to which you were going to convert me?
Is that your indifference to the world and its hypocritical ways, its prejudices and its sneers ?" She was quite right.