‘Because you’d only turn your back on me again?’
‘Yes.’
Silence.
‘Aren’t we silly,’ said Christopher.
‘Idiots,’ said Catherine.
‘Of course I know you’re very angry with me,’ said Christopher.
‘I’ve been extraordinarily angry with you the whole week,’ said Catherine.
‘That’s only because you will persist in being unnatural. You’re the absurdest little bundle of prejudices, and musty old fears. Why on earth you can’t simply let yourself go——’
Silence.