‘That’s funny too. Fancy you forgiving me after all these confessions. But you never loved one of them all as you love me.’
‘Never.’
‘Swear it.’
‘I do swear it.’
‘Morally, and what do you call it, and the other?’
‘Not one of them.’
‘And never will again?’
‘Never.’
‘Good boy for ever and ever?’
‘For ever and ever.’