I cannot borrow from you.

Keep this thing, and if I am ever your wife, then you shall give it me." "If you are ever my wife ?" "Is there no room for such an if?
I hope there is not, Anton.

I wish it were as certain as the sun's rising.

But people around us are so cruel! It seems, sometimes, as though the world were against us.

And then you, yourself--" "What of me myself, Nina ?" "I do not think you trust me altogether; and unless you trust me, I know you will not make me your wife." "That is certain; and yet I do not doubt that you will be my wife." "But do you trust me?
Do you believe in your heart of hearts that I know nothing of that paper for which you are searching ?" She paused for a reply, but he did not at once make any.