"I did not love her as a man should love his wife, if you mean that. As for my liking her, I did like her. I liked her very much."
"But you would have loved her?"
"I don't know. I don't find that task of loving so very easy. It might have been that I should have learned to hate her."
"If so, it is better for you, and better for her, that she has gone."

"I liked her very much. But I did not love her as a man should love his wife."
"But you would have come to love her?"
"I don't know. I don't find that task of loving very easy. I might have learned to hate her. 