He invites Sorrow to live with him as a wife, always and constant, not as
a casual mistress: being his "bosom-friend and half of life," even as it
were Hallam himself.
Sorrow must remain his centred passion which cannot move; nevertheless it
will not always be gloomy: but rather allow occasional playfulness, so
that it would not be commonly known that he had a life-long
affliction.[39]