If you care for me, Grace, as I think and hope you do, we'll face the church and the town together, and they will respect us for it." She shook her head.
"Some of them might respect you," she said.

"They would say you had been led into this by me and were not so much to blame.

But I--" "They shall respect my wife," he interrupted, snapping his teeth together, "or I'll know the reason why." She smiled mournfully.
"I think they'll tell you the reason," she answered.

"No, John, no! we mustn't think of it.

You can see we mustn't.