"Sometimes I think you have really nothing I need or want, that I care for you because you so much need what I can give.

You poor pauper, with the delusion that you are rich!" "You are frank," said she, smiling, but not liking it.
"And why shouldn't I be?
I've given up hope of your ever seeing the situation as it is.

I've nothing to lose with you.

Besides, I shouldn't want you on any false terms.

One has only to glance about him to shrink from the horrors of marriage based on delusions and lies.