"Because I kissed a man. Nonsense."
"Kissin' doesn't stop at kissin'."
"Not with you, perhaps."
"Leah!" he turned and reclosed the door, which his rage had wrenched open. "I know you've got a beastly tongue, and all that; but I could have sworn that you were as pure as my mother."
"Well, and so you can."
"What? After you confessin' that you kissed Demetrius?"
"Ugh!" Leah shuddered, as a picture after the style of Wiertz rose to her mind's eye. "I kissed a thing which was once Demetrius."
"Is he dead, then?"
"Better if he were. Ugh! That kiss was the most horrible thing I ever had to do in my life."
"Why did you do it, then?"