"No, Zoe, you know it isn't."
"Would it be horrid for me and Gerald—Gerald and I—to kiss?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Listen, Zoe, a new word. The most beautiful and the most horrible thing in the world can be sex."
"Sex?"
"Yes, dear. We haven't used the term in our talks—yet."
"Isn't it nice?"
"That lies with you."
"Then what is sex?"