He knew her well enough to know she would make a pretty good wife.
I would make a very poor wife for him, and you know it.
The question is, will this woman make a military wife?
She knows that I would like to make her my wife.
"But no matter how you reason it out, that would still only make her your second wife."
If circumstances were different she might make a fine wife.
"You said yourself that she would make a good wife."
But first, he had to truly make her his wife.
She would make a good wife, when he decided to settle down.
"I think she might make my brother a good wife," he continued.