.

No, she resolved.

She would accept duty as the price of life, which also was a duty; but she would never relax what always to her had meant life, had been a part of her, the principles ingrained in her teachings and her practices, ever since she was a child.

No, it was husband or nothing.
And surely he had been all that he had said he would be.

He _was_ kindly, he _was_ chivalrous, he had proved that.