You will grow to despise me.

There’s a scene in Far from the Madding Crowd that I’ve watched more times than I’d admit. Bathsheba looks at Gabriel and lists to him numerous reasons they can’t be together, one being that he’s far too good and then when push comes to shove, she says:

“I am too independent for you. You will grow to despise me.”

And he says, “Never.”

That’s it. One wor…