And in time,--after a little time--' 'No, Marie, after no time at all.

You told me at supper to-night that I had better get a wife for myself.

But I will get no wife.

I could not bring myself to marry another girl, I could not take a woman home as my wife if I did not love her.

If she were not the person of all persons most dear to me, I should loathe her.' He was speaking daggers to her, and he must have known how sharp were his words.