I have had only one desire, and that is to be your husband in the highest and truest sense.

But, I am a man--you a woman.

There are two wills and two understandings that must act in the same direction.

Now, in the nature of things, the mind of one must, helped by the mind of the other to see right, take, as a general thing, the initiative where action is concerned.
Unless this be so, constant collisions will occur.

And this takes us back to the question that lies at the basis of all order and happiness--which of the two minds shall lead ?" "A man and his wife are equal," said Irene, firmly.