"A great deal more that is worth hearing."
"And behave herself as a mother of a family with quite as much propriety?"
"In all that I do not doubt that she would be my superior."
"More obedient I am sure she would be."
"Or she would be very disobedient."
"And then she can provide me and my children with ample comforts."
"Which I take it is the real purpose for which a wife should be married."
"Therefore," said he,—and then he stopped.
"And therefore there should be no doubt."
"Though I hate her," he said, clenching his fist with violence as he spoke, "with every fibre of my heart,—still you think there should be no doubt?"