„When I married, my wife was a beautiful girl, white and slim as a lily, with dancing eyes and gay rippling laughter like music. In a year or so the flower-like grace had all vanished; she became heavy, shapeless, deformed: she dragged herself around the house in uncouth misery with drawn blotched face and hideous body, sick at heart because of our love. It was dreadful. I tried to be kind to her; forced myself to touch and kiss her; but she was sick always, and – oh! I cannot recall it, it is all loathsome.”
„She was always graceful and always charming, but now there is an earnestness and an ease about her which is the result of practice in platform speaking, and I shall not be surprised if in a few years Mrs Wilde has become one of the most popular among “platform ladies”
„He married
her for love and if she had treated him properly and stuck to him after he had
been in prison, as a really good wife would have done, he would have gone on loving
her to the end of his life … Obviously she suffered a great deal and deserves
every sympathy, but she fell woefully short of the height to which she might
have risen.”
