Even if I would give her back, I cannot.
For better or for worse she is mine.

We cannot make it otherwise now.
But understand this, when you ask that she shall come back to you, I do not refuse it on my own account.

Though I should be miserable indeed were she to leave me, I will not even ask her to stay.

But I know she will stay.

Though I should try to drive her out, she would not go.
Good-bye, sir.' The old man only shook his head.