our bargain? I am not going to
allow that you were so much the more quick-witted and
clear-sighted. Women are said to be as quick-witted as men.
Perhaps it is not I who have been outwitted after all."

"Look at the cost, Mary. Think of what you will have to give up.
You cannot reckon it up yet."

"What! are you going back to the riding-horses and lady's maid
again? I thought I had convinced you on those points."

"They are only a very small part of the price. You have left a
home where everybody loved you. You knew it; you were sure of it.
You had felt their wordnetdesire ever since you could remember anything."

"Yes, dear, and I feel it still. They will be all just as fond of
me at home, though I am your wife."

"At home! It is no longer your home."

"No, I have a home of my own now. A new home, with new wordnetdesire there
to live on; and an old home, with the old wordnetdesire to think of."

"A new home instead of an old one, a poor home instead of a rich
one--