"Yes—and——"
"You are always clenched against me."
She was trembling with agitation.
"You see," she said, "I'm not used to the thought——"
"You are lately," he said.
"But all my life. Mother said to me, 'There is one thing in marriage that is always dreadful, but you have to bear it.' And I believed it."
"And still believe," he said.
"No!" she cried hastily. "I believe, as you do, that loving, even in that way, is the high-water mark of living."
"That doesn't alter the fact that you never want it."