If I hadn't met you in that strange way, by miracle, I should never have been able to marry.

If I allow you to have these friends--' 'I don't like to hear that word.

Why should you say _allow_?
Do you think of me as your servant, Edmund ?' 'You know how I think of you.

It is I who am your servant, your slave.' 'Oh, I can't believe that!' She pressed her handkerchief to her cheeks, and laughed unnaturally.

'Such words don't mean anything.