CROCKSTEAD. Yes?
ALINE. I leave you to finish the sentence.
CROCKSTEAD. Thank you. I will finish it my own way. I will say that when a woman deliberately tries to wring an offer of marriage from a man whom she does not love, she deserves to be spoken to as I have spoken to you, Lady Aline.
ALINE. [Scornfully.] Love! What has love to do with marriage?
CROCKSTEAD. That remark rings hollow. You have been good enough to tell me of your cousin, whom you did love—
ALINE. Well?
CROCKSTEAD. And with whom you would have eloped, had your mother not prevented you.
ALINE. I most certainly should.
CROCKSTEAD. So you see that at one period of your life you thought differently.—You were very fond of him?
ALINE. I have told you.