"God bless my soul! That's going back to the beginning."
"You are heartless,—absolutely heartless. It has come to that with you that any real idea of love is out of the question."
"I can't afford it, my dear."
"But is there no such thing as love that you can't help? Can you drop a girl out of your heart altogether simply because she has got no money? I suppose you did love me once?" Here Jack scratched his head. "You did love me once?" she said, persevering with her question.
"Of course I did," said Jack, who had no objection to making assurances of the past.
"And you don't now?"
"Whoever said so? What's the good of talking about it?"
"Do you think you owe me nothing?"
"What's the good of owing, if a man can't pay his debts?"
"You will own nothing then?"