It will be hard at first.

But I can do it, and I will do it, in order that your conscience may be free.

You shall marry her, as though you had never known me, and hereafter I will always be the same.

Only--" She fixed her eyes upon him with a look which, whether genuine or assumed, was fierce and tender-- "Only--if you are not true to her, Bosio--if you leave her and go after some other woman--then I will turn upon you!" Bosio met her glance with a look of something like astonishment, wondering how in a few sentences she had got herself into a position to threaten him with vengeance if he were unfaithful to Veronica.
"We will not speak of that," she exclaimed before he said anything in answer or protest.

"We have harder things to do than to imagine evil in the future.