That's what a man wants in a wife, too.

Vagaries are all right in a girl, but when he marries, he wants something solid and sensible." "Then you do love me, Jonathan ?" "Don't be a goose," he rejoined--for it was a question to which he had never in his life returned a direct answer.
"Of course, I know you do or you wouldn't have married me--but I wish you'd tell me so--just in words--sometimes." "If I told you so, you'd have no curiosity left, and that would be bad for you.

Come, kiss me, sweetheart, that's better than talking." She kissed him obediently, as mildly complaisant as she had once been coldly aloof.

Though the allurement of the remote had deserted her, she still possessed, in his eyes, the attraction of the beautiful.

If the excitement of the chase was ended, the pleasure of the capture was still amply sufficient to make up the difference.