Still, society associated my name and person with hers; I yet saw her and heard her daily: something of her breath (faugh!) mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband--that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.
Nem feledkezhettem meg arról sem, hogy egyszer a férje voltam - ó, milyen szörnyű erre gondolnom! -, mi több, azt is tudtam, hogy amíg ő él, nem vehetek mást feleségül. És bár öt évvel idősebb, mint én - a családja még a korát is meghamisította előttem -, valószínű, hogy elél addig, ameddig én, mert amilyen gyönge az elmebeli állapota, testileg annyira erős.