if-only's

Updated: May 4, 2025

Charity could not quite disbelieve this, nor quite believe. She had spent the evening debating married love and honeymoons that wax and wane and wax again, and a wife's duty and her rights and might-have-beens, perhapses, and if-only's. Charity had put on her jewels, which had not been taken out of the safe for years, but he had not arrived.

Rupert Hughes - We Can't Have Everything