I should like to have caned him, but I had nothing but a loaded horse-whip to do it with, so I was obliged to let him off.

Now listen! I am going downstairs and I shall stay there for exactly half an hour.

If between now and the end of that half-hour you come to me with any good and sufficient reason for letting you go back and live apart from me in your father's house, I will let you go.

You have asked me to remember that you are my wife.

Precisely what you meant by that you have left me to guess.