They take a wife to be their Muse, and she becomes the millstone about their neck; then they hate her--and I don't blame them.

What's the good of saying one moment that you know your work can never appeal to the multitude, and the next, affecting to believe that our marriage would make you miraculously successful ?" "Then it would have been better to part before this." "No doubt--as it turns out." "Why do you speak bitterly?
I am stating an obvious fact." "If I remember rightly, you had some sort of idea that the fact of our engagement might help you.

That didn't seem to me impossible.

It is a very different thing from marriage on nothing a year." "You have no faith in me; you never had.

And how _could_ you believe in what you don't understand?
I see now what I have been forced to suspect--that your character is just as practical as that of other women.