"I think he wishes it were otherwise. He knows I've chosen him, and wishes I had not, for he hates the burden it places on me." He rolls his eyes. "He does not see how he eases mine own melancholy, and tends mine own aches, and charms me every day with some new scheme for my delight. It's a partnership--an equal partnership. But he sees only my charity toward some poor, undeserving wight."