"However badly you may behave, you will always love me because you must." "Well, and will you always love me however badly I behave ?" "Of course," she answered simply, "because I must.

Oh! whatever we may hear about each other, we may be quite certain that we still love each other--because we must--and all your heaven and hell cannot make any difference, no, not if they were both to join forces and try their best.

But that does not mean that necessarily we shall marry each other, for I think that people who love like that rarely do marry, because, you see, they would be too happy, which something is always trying to prevent.

It may mean, however," she added reflectively, "that we shall not marry anybody else, though even that might happen in your case--not in mine.

Always remember, Godfrey, that I shall never marry anybody else, not even if you took three wives one after the other." "Three wives!" gasped Godfrey.
"Yes, why not?
It would be quite natural, wouldn't it, if you wouldn't marry me, and even proper.