But the deed is done, and we are apart forever.

I cannot live with you again--your presence would suffocate me.

There was a mutual wrong in our marriage; but I was most to blame; for I knew that I did not and never could love you as I believed a husband should be loved.

But you had extorted from me a promise of marriage, and I believed it to be my duty to fulfill that promise.

Young, inexperienced, blind to the future, I took up the burdens you laid at my feet, and believed myself strong enough to carry them all the days of my life.