A Complex Look at Marriage and Adultery by Henry James. 'My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous, or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous, your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all - why then you're beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down.' In The Golden Bowl by Henry James, two couples' lives are intertwined. The Golden Bowl has been adapted into a BBC miniseries and a Merchant Ivory film.