And it doesn't seem to me that Mrs.Lessingham is exactly conventional in her views." "You imagine yourself worthy of such a wife at present ?" "Plainly, I do.

It would be the merest hypocrisy if I said anything else.

If Cecily loves me, my love for her is at least as strong.

If we are equal in that, what else matters?
I am not going to cry _Peccavi_ about the past.

I have lived, and you know what that means in my language.