He will continue to disappoint you.
"Helen, you loved me once; and when a woman loves once, she loves for always.
"Helen, if he could leave you alone during seven months, in order to get local scenery for a wretched manuscript, he will leave you again, and again, and yet again.

He married you for your money; he has practically admitted it to me; but now that he is making a yearly income larger than your own, he has no more use for you.
"Oh, my beloved--my queen--my only Love--don't stay with a man who is altogether unworthy of you! If a man disappoints a woman she has a right to leave him.

He is not what she believed him to be; that fact sets her free.

If you had found out, afterwards, that he was already married to another, would you not have left him?
Well, he _was_ already wedded to himself and to his career.

He had no whole-hearted devotion to give to you.
"Helen, don't wait for his return.