"Ah no. I never broke a promise in my life, but even I cannot be expected to keep one indefinitely with a girl like you within eyeshot."
"That can be easily corrected."
"Come now, I'm giving you your chance here to make good."
"Well then, let me take it."
"My dear girl, never expect the best of us to be more than human."
"I suppose, then, this is to be the regulation, theatrical-manager-dangers-of-a-big-city kind of scene."
"Come now," he said, his voice plushy with the right to intimacy. "We understand each other—Lilly."
She stood silent, flaming her humiliation.
"And I like you for it. If there is one thing to my mind less interesting than another, it is the untempted kind of woman who—"
"I never pretended to you, Mr. Visigoth, that I was what you are pleased to term—tempted!"