refuse! 'Sit still, there's no need for you to go to her.' But after all, why should I be married?
Simply because she's taken an absurd fancy into her heart.

But I'm a serious man, and I can refuse to submit to the idle whims of a giddy-woman! I have duties to my son and...and to myself! I'm making a sacrifice.

Does she realise that?
I have agreed, perhaps, because I am weary of life and nothing matters to me.

But she may exasperate me, and then it will matter.

I shall resent it and refuse.