"Well, whatever it was that, BEFORE, kept us from thinking, and kept you, really, as you might say, in the market.

It was as if you couldn't be in the market when you were married to me.

Or rather as if I kept people off, innocently, by being married to you.

Now that I'm married to some one else you're, as in consequence, married to nobody.

Therefore you may be married to anybody, to everybody.