"An empty hold-all isn't so very heavy."
"It is if you can't put it down."
"Virginia," he said, "your missionary zeal appals me. Why invade the situation? What are you going to tell the man? That he has children?"
"No. That he is throwing his life into a cul-de-sac."
"He won't believe you."
"No."
"And it will probably end by his falling in love with you and think what a terrible mess the cow and the squirrel will make."
Edgar came up to them.
"Will you give me the pleasure of a dance?"
"I should love to."