Jean
[wriggling out of Lucy's embrace]
I am not the woman he adores.
Lucy
Why, Jean! He's engaged to you.
Jean
But he's in love with my sister. You know that as well as I do.
Lucy
[uncomfortably]
Oh, well, he was once, but not now. Men admire these independent women, but they don't marry them. Nobody wants to marry a sexless freak with a scientific degree.