"I gave you life.

I have been your slave every hour since you were born.
I have lived but for you.

Which of us has God joined together ?" "Mother, you're damnably unreasonable! It is the course of nature for a man to leave his parents and cleave to his wife." "Yes, I know," she said slowly.

"You can keep that foul thing in your life, but it never shall come into mine." "Then neither will I.

I will stand by my wife." "That is the end, then ?" She waited, her eyes on his.
He did not speak.
She turned and left him, disappearing slowly in the rain and mist..