"What difficulties can there be?"
"Will you do anything more than destroy her by binding her once more to the man she loathes?"
"You do not know Pepeeta."
"It is true, I only know human nature."
"But she is more than human!"
"And are you?"
"Not I!"
"Then how will you endure to see her once more the wife of your enemy and rival?"
"Mantel," said David, pausing in his restless walk across the room, "I do not wonder that you ask this. It was the first question that I asked myself. It struck my heart like the blow of a hammer. But I have settled it. I have weighed the pains which I have suffered in a just and even balance. I know I cannot escape suffering, whichever way I turn. I have felt the pains of doing wrong, and I now deliberately choose the pains of doing right, let them be what they will!"
"It is easy to scorn the bitterness of an untasted cup."