But if it be not so, and if you remain with him while there is a doubt upon the matter, then you are his mistress.' 'If I am not his wife, then I will be his mistress,' said Hester, standing up and looking as she spoke much as her mother would look in her most determined moments.
'My child!' 'What is the use of all this, mamma?
Nothing shall make me leave him.
Others may be ashamed of me; but because of this I shall never be ashamed of myself.

You are ashamed of me!' 'If you could mean what you said just now I should be ashamed of you.' 'I do mean it.

Though the juries and the judges should say that he was not my husband, though all the judges in England should say it, I would not believe them.

They may put him in prison and so divide us; but they never shall divide my bone from his bone, and my flesh from his flesh.
As you are ashamed of me, I had better go back to-morrow.' Then Mrs.Bolton determined that early in the morning she would look to the bolts and bars; but when the morning came matters had softened themselves a little..