Jane: I—I—I wasn't thinking about you at all.
And she got down from the swing and walked away.
Martin: Now we DON'T know where we are.
And he got down from the branch and walked after her.
Martin: Please, Mistress Jane, are you in a temper?
Jane: I am never in a temper.
Martin: Hurrah.
Jane: Being in a temper is silly. It isn't normal. And it clouds people's judgments.
Martin: So do lots of things, don't they? Like leapfrog, and mad bulls, and rum punch, and very full moons, and love—
Jane: All these things are, as you say, abnormal. And I have no more use for them than I have for tempers. But being disheartened isn't being in a temper; and I am always disheartened when people argue badly. And above all, men, who, I find, can never keep to the point. Although they say—