Did you ever look before you leaped in your life ?' 'We are to be together, you know, and it won't do for us to be hampered with that woman.' 'Won't it?
Then let me tell you that, if I choose to hamper myself with that woman, or with a whole harem of women, and am not deterred by any consideration for myself, I certainly shall not be deterred by any consideration for you.

Do you understand me ?' 'That is not being a true partner,' said Shand.
'I'm quite sure of this,--that I'm likely to be as true as you are.

I'm not aware that I have entered into any terms with you by which I have bound myself to any special mode of living.

I have left England, as I fancy you have done also, because I desired more conventional freedom than one can find among the folk at home.

And now, on the first outset, I am to be cautioned and threatened by you because I have made acquaintance with a young woman.