Tanner. I will not marry you. I will not marry you.
Ann. Oh, you will, you will.
Tanner. I tell you, no, no, no.
Ann. I tell you, yes, yes, yes.
Tanner. No.
Ann (coaxing—imploring—almost exhausted). Yes. Before it is too late for repentance. Yes.
Tanner (struck by an echo from the past). When did all this happen to me before? Are we two dreaming?
Ann (suddenly losing her courage, with an anguish that she does not conceal). No. We are awake and you have said no: that is all.
Tanner (brutally). Well?
Ann. Well, I made a mistake, you do not love me.