But in this same honeymoon there came a period of satiety, in which we ceased to be necessary to each other, and a new quarrel broke out.
"It became evident that the first was not a matter of chance.

'It was inevitable,' I thought.

This second quarrel stupefied me the more, because it was based on an extremely unjust cause.

It was something like a question of money,--and never had I haggled on that score; it was even impossible that I should do so in relation to her.

I only remember that, in answer to some remark that I made, she insinuated that it was my intention to rule her by means of money, and that it was upon money that I based my sole right over her.