Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.