No more my relatives than you or you?

Nothing to them! You know what they declared.

So with my husband,—just such a surprise,

Such a mistake, in that relationship!

Every one says that husbands love their wives,

Guard them and guide them, give them happiness;

'T is duty, law, pleasure, religion: well,

You see how much of this comes true in mine!

People indeed would fain have somehow proved

He was no husband: but he did not hear,