All the woman in her glowed over him.
"I'm not going to be called an adventurer," he had declared.

"I shall not submit Sophie to the indignity of trailing a despised husband after her.

I'm not going to use her rank and wealth as a stepping-stone to my ambitions.

Let me first attain an unassailable position.

I shall have owed it to you, to myself, to anybody you like--but not to my marriage.
I shall be somebody.