"It is strange," pursued he, "that while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly--with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know."
-Aunque haya amado a Rosamond Oliver tan intensamente como la amo, y reconociendo lo bella, exquisita y graciosa que es, jamás he dejado de comprender que no será una esposa apropiada para mí, que no sería la compañera que necesito. Me consta que a un año de éxtasis, sucedería toda una vida de lamentar esa unión.