Was he not loving her and disposed to prove it to her by all manner of sacrifices ?...
Sacrifices as proof of love always left this woman cold, accepting them with a skeptical gesture.
"All men have told me the same thing," she added; "they all promise to kill themselves if I do not love them....

And with the most of them it is nothing more than a phrase of passionate rhetoric.

And what if they did kill themselves really?
What does that prove ?...

To leave life on the spur of a moment that gives no opportunity for repentance;--a simple nervous flash, a posture many times assumed simply for what people will say, with the frivolous pride of an actor who likes to pose in graceful attitudes.

I know what all that means.