Why does that interest you?
Young Wife
Aren’t you my husband? Isn’t it a sort of injustice that I really know nothing about your past?
Husband
You surely don’t think I have such bad taste, as to—No, Emma … it would be like a profanation.
Young Wife
And yet you have … heaven knows how many other women you have held in your arms, just as you are holding me now.
Husband
Don’t say “women.” You are the woman.
Young Wife