"Yes, that is the word for it. You have been persuading her for a month, that you loved her before, and above, all earthly things. As you noticed, she did not at first believe this, but I am sure the last two weeks she has taken all your protestations into her heart."
"I told her nothing but the truth."
"And as soon as you think she loves you——"
"She does love me—she says so."
"You take advantage of her love, and ask her to go back to a life that almost killed her, before she fled from it. Poor Theodora! And I call your act a selfish, cowardly one."
"What did you expect me to do?"
"To give up everything for her."
"To give up the works—the Campbell Iron Works! To give them up! Sell them perhaps at a loss! Did you expect I would do this?"
"I did. I supposed you wished her to be again your wife."
"You know I wished it."