“No?”
“And if I don’t,” I persisted, “what shall you do?”
“What would you expect me to do?”
“I should expect you to back me up.”
“So that we should both be disregarding gratitude and honor?”
“We’ve a right to our happiness.”
“That’s a very old argument, isn’t it?”
“It’s not the less true for being old.”
“Oh no; if it’s true it’s true—anyhow.”
“And it is true. Don’t you know it is?”