Even if the couple are everything to each other, there is all the world to point his finger, and all the world's wife to turn her back, and you have to care a good deal to get over that.

But you may have been desperate in the first instance; you may have said to yourself that the fire couldn't be much worse than the frying-pan.

In that case, of course, you deserve no sympathy, and nothing is more irritating to me than the sympathy I don't deserve.

It's a matter of temperament; I'm obliged to speak out, even if it puts people more against me than they were already.

No, you needn't say anything, Captain Clephane; you didn't express your sympathy, I stopped you in time....