Your love hasn't stood the test as it should have done.
You have given me no help; besides the burden of cheerless work I have had to bear that of your growing coldness.

I can't remember one instance when you have spoken to me as a wife might--a wife who was something more than a man's housekeeper.' The passion in his voice and the harshness of the accusation made her unable to reply.
'You said rightly,' he went on, 'that I have always been kind and gentle.

I never thought I could speak to you or feel to you in any other way.

But I have undergone too much, and you have deserted me.

Surely it was too soon to do that.