RUTH (absently). I think that what I'm doing now is the bravest thing I ever did. (At him.) What do you make of it all?
GUY (trying to be light). I think you're a mischievous tease, and——
RUTH. I'm quite in earnest. I was in earnest when I let you talk to me of love and still in earnest when I told you I could walk with you no more.
GUY. Ruth! You didn't mean it?
RUTH. I meant it all. Did you?
GUY (surprised). Did I?
RUTH. About your love.
GUY. Why should you doubt me, Ruth?
RUTH. I'll tell you. Because in all your talk of love, you have used a lot of words, but there is one word that you haven't spoken yet, and that I'd like to hear before I go my walks with you again.
GUY. What word?