6/33 But it can't be right that a woman should pretend to love a man whom she loathes. If it were simply to go and die, so that his pride would be gratified by my return, I would do it; but I should not die. There would come some horrid scene, and I should be no more a wife to him than I am while living here. He declares that unless I return to him he will put into some of the papers a statement of the whole case. |