“I have told you that I justify you in everything,” he softened his reply.
“But you have not answered my question,” she insisted. “Oh, I do not mean mere flirtatious passages, bits of primrose philandering. I mean unfaithfulness and I mean it technically. In the past you have?”
“In the past,” he answered, “not much, and not for a long, long time.”
“I often wondered,” she mused.
“And I have told you I justify you in everything,” he reiterated. “And now you know where lies the justification.”
“Then by the same token I had a similar right,” she said. “Though I haven’t, Dick, I haven’t,” she hastened to add. “Well, anyway, you always did preach the single standard.”
“Alas, not any longer,” he smiled. “One’s imagination will conjure, and in the past few weeks I’ve been forced to change my mind.”
“You mean that you demand I must be faithful?”
He nodded and said, “So long as you live with me.”
“But where’s the equity?”