I would snap the bond between us like a bit of thread.

But you are not one of those poor creatures.' He looked at her with some gravity.
'Should you think me a poor creature if I resented any kind of unfaithfulness ?--whether love, in any noble sense, had part in it or not ?' 'No.

That is the reasonable understanding between man and wife.

If I exact fidelity from you, and certainly I should, I must consider myself under the same obligation.' 'You say "man or wife." Do you say it with the ordinary meaning ?' 'Not as it applies to us.

You know what I mean when I ask you to be my wife.