But it is true all the same.

The other night when you said 'marriage is hideous,' I saw fear in your eyes.
There is fear in your eyes now." The girl dropped her eyes and raised them again instantly.

Her slanting eyebrows frowned.
"Nevertheless," she said, "I shall not marry." "But you will, as an honest person, admit the other part of the proposition--that you want something at least of what marriage can give ?" "Yes." "Well then--that states your case.

Now let me state mine.

I, too, have an insuperable objection to marriage.