"You grow better at compliments as the days go by."
"No dear, deeper in love."
"With such a commonplace kind of thing as a wife?"
"With the most un-commonplace sweetheart--wife in all the world."
"John, I am already beginning to feel quite a middle-aged wife, and my ring where it touches the guard is getting worn."
"That's a desperately serious thing--about the ring, I mean. Gold was too easily--worn a metal to marry you with, Edith. It should have been a plain band of adamant, and even that would not last long enough, dear."
"Are you practising a speech to win a constituency?"
"No. I am speaking out of my heart to keep what I have won."
"Do you know I envy you only for one thing?"
"And what is that?"