“Of course I did.”
“You never came near me again.”
“Of course I didn’t.”
“You let three years go by without a word.”
“Of course—”
“If you say ‘of course I did’ again I’ll fly straight up through this roof. If you’d ever loved me you wouldn’t have gone away and left me.”
“If I hadn’t loved you I wouldn’t have gone away.”
“Oh, dear,” Betty sighed. “I don’t see how you can stand there and think about yourself with Nancy out in the night—we don’t know where.”
“Ourselves, Betty—did you ever really love me?”