"From that day there was a complete change in our life and our relations to each other. We were no longer as happy when we were alone together as before. When the talk turned on life in the country, or on a ball, we were uneasy and shrank from looking at one another. Both of us knew where the gulf between us lay, and seemed afraid to approach it., We had long ceased to think each other the most perfect people in the world; each now judged the other in secret and measured the offender by the standard of other people" (Family Happiness, pg. 63.)

"That day ended the romance of our marriage; the old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance; but a new feeling of love for my children and the father of my children laid the foundation of a new life and a quite different happiness; and...