You wouldn't do it anyway, whether or not I asked you--" "But don't ask me," she said, turning very white.

"I don't know what I am capable of if I should ever see you suffer!" "You _couldn't_ do it!" he repeated; "it isn't in you to take your happiness at their expense, is it?
You say you know how they would feel; I don't.

But if you're asking for an annulment--" "What?
Do you mean divorce ?" "No....

That is--different--" "But what--" "You dear," he said, suddenly gentle, "you have never been a--wife; and you don't know it." "Garry, are you mad ?" "Shiela, dear, some day will you very quietly ask some woman the difference between divorce and annulment ?" "Y-yes, if you wish....

Is it something you mayn't tell me, Garry ?" "Yes....