I added that I foresaw that as soon as I was well, I must quit the family, and that as for marrying his brother, I abhorred the thoughts of it after what had been my case with him, and that he might depend upon it I would never see his brother again upon that subject; that if he would break all his vows and oaths and engagements with me, be that between his conscience and his honour and himself; but he should never be able to say that I, whom he had persuaded to call myself his wife, and who had given him the liberty to use me as a wife, was not as faithful to him as a wife ought to be, whatever he might be to me.
Que s'il voulait briser tous ses voeux et ses serments et ses engagements envers moi, que cela fut entre sa conscience et lui-même; mais il ne serait jamais capable de dire que moi, qu'il avait persuadée de se nommer sa femme, et qui lui avais donné la liberté de faire usage de moi comme d'une femme, je ne lui avais pas été fidèle comme doit l'être une femme, quoi qu'il pût être envers moi.