You know what I gave up because I feared that curse.

Was I to be foiled at last, because such a creature as that wanted to shirk out of his bargain?
I knew there would be some who would say I had been false.

Hugh Clavering says so now, I suppose.

But they never should say I had left him to die alone in a foreign land." "Did he ask you to leave him ?" "No; but he called me that name which no woman should hear and stay.

No woman should do so unless she had a purpose such as mine.