Ann: But I wanted them to believe it. I—I was proud of it.

Philip (brutally): Well, you’re not proud of it now, are you?

Ann: No. I don’t think that I shall ever recover from the shame of it.

Philip: It’ll soon blow over.

Ann: I didn’t mean that. Do you think I care what the world thinks? Do you think I mind the scandal? It’s having loved you that I mind. That is the shame that will never wear out.

[There is a pause.

Philip: I suppose I have been saying things I didn’t altogether mean.

Ann: I don’t think so.

Philip: It’s no good saying I am sorry, is it?

Ann: No.