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George Marden is a rigid man who recently married
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George: If there were any other way! Olivia, what can I do? It is the only way, isn't it? All that that fellow said–of course, it sounds very well–but as things are....is there anything in marriage, or isn't there? You believe that there is, don't you? You aren't one of these Socialists. Well, then, can we go on living together when you're another man's wife? It isn't only what people will say, but it is wrong, isn't it?.... And supposing he doesn't divorce you, are we to go on living together, unmarried, forever? Olivia, you seem to think that I'm just thinking of the publicity–what people will say. I'm not. I'm not. That comes in any way. But I want to do what's right, what's best. I don't mean what's best for us, what makes us happiest, I mean what's really best, what's rightest. What anybody else would do in my place. I don't know. It's so unfair. You're not my wife at all, but I want to do what's right....oh, Olivia, Olivia, you do understand, don't you?
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