I have been absurdly weak, and weakness in the husband means unhappiness in the wife.

From today you look to me for guidance.

I am no tyrant, but I shall rule you for your own good.' Still she smiled.
'So there's an end of our misery--isn't it, darling?
What misery! Good God, how I have suffered! Haven't you known it ?' 'I have known it too well.' 'And now you will make up to me for it, Monica ?' Again prompted by the irresistible force, she answered mechanically,-- 'I will do the best for both.' He threw himself on the ground beside her and clasped her in his arms.
'No, that is my own dear wife once more! Your face has altogether changed.

See how right it is that a husband should take the law into his own hands! Our second year of marriage shall be very different from the first.

And yet we _were_ happy, weren't we, my beautiful?
It's only this cursed London that has come between us.