Still, society associated my name and person with hers; I yet saw her and heard her daily: something of her breath (faugh!) mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband--that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.
La sociedad unía mi nombre al suyo, yo la veía a diario, respiraba el aire que su aliento contaminaba y, además, era su esposo -lo que me resultaba más odioso que nada- y sabía que mientras viviera, no podría unirme a una mujer mejor que ella. Tenía cinco años más que yo -su familia me había ocultado ese detalle-, pero físicamente estaba tan robusta como mentalmente enferma.