She is too unhappy and I can't endure it.

My words are not a sanction, not a prescription, and so it's no slur on your pride.

If you care to take my place at the altar, you can do it without any sanction from me, and there is no ground for me to come to you with a mad proposal, especially as our marriage is utterly impossible after the step I am taking now.

I cannot lead her to the altar feeling myself an abject wretch.

What I am doing here and my handing her over to you, perhaps her bitterest foe, is to my mind something so abject that I shall never get over it." "Will you shoot yourself on our wedding day ?" "No, much later.