Yet there is one soft tie, which, when I think

The cruel edge of keen necessity

Has cut asunder, almost bursts my heart.

Gondi. What is it, youth?

Adeline. That, which from my youth,—

For I have scarcely yet told one and twenty,—

Might, haply, not be thought;—yet so it is;—

Know, then, that I am married.

Gondi. Married, didst say?

And dost thou love——