“That’s it. I am compelled, and I don’t know whether I want to or not.”
“Well!...” She drew the word out to its full value. “I must say you’re frank.”
“Please don’t be offended. I don’t mean to be offensive, but things have gotten so rottenly complicated with me that I’m afraid of another complication.”
“And I’m a complication?”
He nodded. “You know it,” he said. “I think you know more about what a complication you are than I do.”
“You are thinking Andree will be jealous.”
“I’m thinking she may have cause to be jealous.”
“And you don’t want her to have?”
“That’s just it. I don’t know.... I don’t want anything ever to happen to make her unhappy. You and I have talked pretty frankly, haven’t we? Somehow you seem to understand things over here, though you are as American as I am—and you—well, you don’t make a fuss. But even at that, you don’t know how I feel about her.... Maybe I’m going to be in love with you, and maybe I’m in love with you already. I don’t know.... But I do know that I love her.”
“If you are by way of making love to me you’ve invented a new method.”