If I loved a man I could face poverty with him, much as I hate and dread it.

It was because I only liked you, and could not feel more----" "Your love happens to fall upon a man who has solid possessions." "It's easy to speak so scornfully.

I have not pretended to love the man you mean." "Yet you have brought him to think that you are willing to marry him." "Without any word of love from me.

If I had been free I would have married him--just because I am sick of the life I lead, and long for the kind of life he offered me." "When it's too late you are frank enough." "Despise me as much as you like.

You want the truth, and you shall hear nothing else from me." "Well, we get near to understanding each other.