I suppose you imagined I was so insanely in love with you that I could commit any folly. When will you women understand that one isn't insanely in love? All one asks for is a quiet life, which you won't allow one to have. I don't know what the devil ever induced me to marry you. It was all a damned stupid, practical joke. And now you go about saying I'm a murderer. I won't stand it.
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[http://www.online-literature.com/aldous_huxley/mortal-coils/1/ The Gioconda smile], in [http://www.online-literature.com/aldous_huxley/mortal-coils/ Mortal Coils (1921)]