"I knew it. Those fine compliments were all bunk."
"Not at all. You've changed physically for the better. But what is more important is that you've changed spiritually—"
"For the worse, of course. Now we're coming to it."
"I didn't say it. I'm not at all sure."
"This may be candor, Robert. But it sounds like revenge."
"You may as well be serious, Janet. I've got volumes to pour out to you, and pour them out I will. When I'm with you, I'm like the Ancient Mariner. I want to tell you everything."
"Everything?"
"Well, almost everything, as they say in the comic opera. What do you suppose was the most wonderful companionship I ever formed?"
"I can't guess."
"Barr and Lloyd. Do you know why? Because, for one thing, there was nothing in reason that I couldn't talk to you about, with the most unvarnished frankness. I still feel that way."