I wonder about it every day.

You see girls a thousand times better suited to you than I am.

Why do you love me so ?" "What a question to answer, sweet! How can I tell why I love you?
I cannot help it; my soul is attracted to your soul, my heart to your heart, Madaline.

I shall be unwilling to leave you again; when I go away from Verdun Royal, I shall want to take my wife with me." She looked at him in alarm.
"I am quite serious," he continued.

"You are so sensitive, so full of hesitation, that, if I leave you, you will come to the conclusion that you have done wrong, and will write me a pathetic little letter, and go away." "No, I shall not do that," she observed.
"I shall not give you a chance, my own; I shall neither rest myself nor let any one else rest until you are my wife.