No relation involving divided duties and continual intercourse between two people can subsist permanently on love alone.

Yet love is not to be despised when it comes from a fine nature.

There is a man who loves you exactly as you think I ought to love Agatha--and as I don't love her." Gertrude's emotion stirred again, and her color rose.

"You have no right to say these things now," she said.
"Why may I not plead the cause of another?
I speak of Erskine." Her color vanished, and he continued, "I want you to marry him.

When you are married you will understand me better, and our friendship, shaken just now, will be deepened; for I dare assure you, now that you can no longer misunderstand me, that no living woman is dearer to me than you.