“Do what, Duchess?”
“Don’t call me Duchess; just for once be serious.”
“I am serious, darling. What is it?”
“D’you remember years ago, when you asked me to marry you? D’you remember what you said?”
“Might, if you told me. Was I more than ordinarily foolish?”
“You said, ‘I need your strength. With you I could be a man.’”
“I’d clean forgotten. Funny way of proposin’—eh?”
“It wasn’t funny. That was just what you needed—a woman’s strength. I’ve tried so hard. But I’ve sometimes thought——”
“Go on, old lady.”
“I’ve sometimes thought we never ought to have married.”