"I will make you love me. Good usage will make a wife love her husband. Don't you think you can trust me?"
"I do believe that I can trust you for everything good."
"Is that nothing?"
"It is a great deal, Larry, but not enough;—not enough to bring together a man and woman as husband and wife. I would sooner marry a man I loved, though I knew he would ill-use me."
"Would you?"
"To marry either would be wrong."
"I sometimes think, dearest, that if I could talk better I should be better able to persuade you."
"I sometimes think you talk so well that I ought to be persuaded;—but I can't. It is not lack of talking."
"What is it, then?"
"Just this;—my heart does not turn itself that way. It is the same chance that has made you—partial to me."