The Abduction of Psyche

The Abduction of Psyche
The Broken Pitcher
The Jewel Casket
¡¡¡¡ "I should have, just the same. As to ourselves, the fact of our not having entered into a legal contract is the saving feature in our union. We have thereby avoided insulting, as it were, the solemnity of our first marriages." ¡¡¡¡ "Solemnity?" Jude looked at her with some surprise, and grew conscious that she was not the Sue of their earlier time. ¡¡¡¡ "Yes," she said, with a little quiver in her words, "I have had dreadful fears, a dreadful sense of my own insolence of action. I have thought--that I am still his wife!" ¡¡¡¡ "Whose?" ¡¡¡¡ "Richard's." ¡¡¡¡ "Good God, dearest!--why?" ¡¡¡¡ "Oh I can't explain! Only the thought comes to me." ¡¡¡¡ "It is your weakness--a sick fancy, without reason or meaning! Don't let it trouble you." ¡¡¡¡ Sue sighed uneasily.