How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
It was finished then: it had become hopeless between them long before he died. Yet he had been her husband. But how little!— (2.130)
In what is probably one of the saddest moment in the whole story, Elizabeth recognizes that her marriage was doomed a long time before Walter died and believes that he was really, when all was said and done, only her husband a "little."