"When last I saw you," Aldous returned, tone strained and words clipped, "you were under the impression that a life lived with your wife could not possibly bring you anything other than misery. I am... curious, to say the least, as to how that might have evolved in the short time since."

She had drugged him, not with opium but with a love potion, perhaps; worse, she may well have placed him under an Imperius Curse—Merlin help them, had had Reuben's coerced wedding vows been Unbreakable in nature?!