If the legal opinion is adverse to your rightful claims, I will promise to answer any questions which you may choose to put to me.

As it is, I believe you to be lawfully my son's wife; and I say again, make the best of your position.

Be satisfied with your husband's affectionate devotion to you.

If you value your peace of mind and the happiness of your life to come, abstain from attempting to know more than you know now." She sat down again with the air of a woman who had said her last word.
Further remonstrance would be useless; I could see it in her face; I could hear it in her voice.

I turned round to open the drawing-room door.
"You are hard on me, madam," I said at parting.