"Alice, look here. I know what I am, and what I am like to become. I loathe myself, and I loathe the thing that I am thinking of. I could have clung to the outside of a man's body, to his very trappings, and loved him ten times better than myself!--ay, even though he had ill-treated me,--if I had been allowed to choose a husband for myself. Burgo would have spent my money,--all that it would have been possible for me to give him. But there would have been something left, and I think that by that time I could have won even him to care for me. But with that man--! Alice you are very wise. What am I to do?"

"Alice, look here. I know what I am. I loathe myself, and I loathe the thing that I am thinking of. I could have loved a man ten times better than myself - even though he had ill-treated me - if I had been allowed to choose a husband for myself. Burgo would have spent my money. But there would have been something left, and I think that by that time I could have won even him to care for me. But with that man-! Alice you are very wise. What am I to do?"
