He did not leave you his fortune because you were his wife.

He made you his wife so that he could leave you his fortune, because of the person he had watched you be.

That sentence, the person he had watched you be, has stayed with me more than almost anything else Arthur said that day, because it named a truth about how character is actually revealed that I had never articulated.

Julian did not learn who I was from anything I said, or any impression I tried to make, or any account I gave of myself.