He and Mary were not yet man and wife: a dental-office manager, she had been a friend for years before both their marriages were falling apart and they started dating in 2010.
But although she may prevent us from becoming man and wife, and I may marry some one else, and marry often, nothing that she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you.
I did consider; and still my sense, such as it was, directed me only to the fact that we did not love each other as man and wife should: and therefore it inferred we ought not to marry.