If you hadn't been engaged already, you'd have listened to me; I feel that power in myself; I know I should have made you care for me by loving you as desperately as I do.

I wouldn't have let you refuse me--you hear, Emily?
Emily! Emily! Emily!--it does me good to call you by your name--I haven't done so before to-day, have I, Emily?
Not a cruel thing, because I offer you more than any man living can, more of that for which you care most, the life a highly educated woman can appreciate.

You shall travel where you will; you shall buy books and pictures, and all else to your heart's content; and, after all, you shall love me.

That's a bold word, but I tell you I feel the power in me to win your love.

I'm not hateful to you, even now; you can't really despise me, for you know that whatever I do is for no mean purpose.
There is no woman living like you, and to make you my wife I am prepared to do anything, however vile it seems.