His opposition is temporary.

When you are my wife he will be to you as to any wife I could have chosen, I am convinced of it.' 'Then more than ever I entreat you to wait, only till his return to England.

If you fail then, I will resist no longer.

Show him this much respect, dearest; join him abroad now; let him see that you desire his kindness.

Is he not disappointed that you mean to break off your career at Oxford?
Why should you do that?
You promised me--did you not promise me, Wilfrid, that you would go on to the end ?' 'I cannot! I have no longer the calmness, no longer the old ambitions,--how trivial they were!' 'And yet there will come a day when you will regret that you left your course unfinished, just because you fell in love with a foolish girl.' 'Do not speak like that, Emily; I hate that way of regarding love! My passion for you is henceforth my life; if it is trifling, so is my whole being, my whole existence.