Remember that, by your own admission, you are ill; you cannot judge soundly of anything, even of your own feelings.

You have done a good deal of harm, Walter, though unintentionally; do you wish to do yet more ?' 'How ?' 'By binding yourself for life to a poor girl who can never by any possibility be a fit companion for you.

I have seen such marriages; I have seen the beginning of them and the end.

You, least of all men, should fall into such an error.

Oh yes, I know; you are not brutal; you would never as much as speak an unkind word.