When I found it amused you to play the part of Princess on this little stage, did I not immediately resign to you my box of toys, this Grunewald?
And when I found I was distasteful as a husband, could any husband have been less intrusive?
You will tell me that I have no feelings, no preference, and thus no credit; that I go before the wind; that all this was in my character.

And indeed, one thing is true, that it is easy, too easy, to leave things undone.

But Seraphina, I begin to learn it is not always wise.

If I were too old and too uncongenial for your husband, I should still have remembered that I was the Prince of that country to which you came, a visitor and a child.

In that relation also there were duties, and these duties I have not performed.' To claim the advantage of superior age is to give sure offence.