If you only knew how I idolize you at this moment, after all the cruel words you have uttered, you surely would relent.

Why will you not be reasonable, dearest?
Why not consent to live with me as your mother lived with your father ?" "Don't wrong the memory of my mother," responded she hastily.

"She was too pure and noble to be dishonored by your cruel laws.

She would never have entered into any such base and degrading arrangement as you propose.

She couldn't have lived under the perpetual shame of deceiving another wife.