"I am not going to make love to you," he said again. "As for making love, as the word goes, that must be over between you and me. It has been made and marred, and cannot be remade. It may exist, or it may have been expelled; but where it does not exist, it will never be brought back again."
"It should not be spoken of between you and me."
"So, no doubt, any proper-going duenna would say, and so, too, little children should be told; but between you and me there can be no necessity for falsehood. We have grown beyond our sugar-toothed ages, and are now men and women. I perfectly understood your breaking away from me. I understood you, and in spite of my sorrow knew that you were right. I am not going to accuse or to defend myself; but I knew that you were right."

"I am not going to make love to you," he said again. "As for love, that must be over between you and me. It has been made and marred, and cannot be remade."
"It should not be spoken of between us."
"So little children should be told; but we are adults. I perfectly understood your breaking away from me, and in spite of my sorrow I knew that you were right."
