Matt. You don't call making love to a married woman a bad habit?!
Lucas. Of course in one sense it is a bad habit. But it isn't a bad habit in the sense that other bad habits are bad habits. Look at all the decent chaps who've been led into it!
Matt. That doesn't excuse you. And if you think that I'm going to countenance your conduct, you are very much mistaken in your estimate of my character.
Lucas. [Very quietly.] May I ask you one simple question?
Matt. Well?
Lucas. When you were my age, if you found yourself alone in a dairy with a good-looking woman, and she was good for a dozen kisses or so, wouldn't you have taken advantage of it?
Matt. No!
Lucas. Not at my age?
Matt. No—no——
Lucas. Well, what would you have done?