"How exasperating you are!"
"Perhaps I've caught the habit from my man."
"Rita, you don't even like me any more."
"No—candidly—I don't."
"I deserve it."
"You do. I can never trust you again."
He shrugged his shoulders; but he could not pretend that he was indifferent. "It seems to me, if Josh forgave me you might."
"I do—forgive."
"But not even friendship?"
"Not EVEN friendship."