MORE. This is madness, Kit—Kit!
KATHERINE. Last night I was ready. You couldn't. If you couldn't then, you never can. You are very exalted, Stephen. I don't like living—I won't live, with one whose equal I am not. This has been coming ever since you made that speech. I told you that night what the end would be.
MORE. [Trying to put his arms round her] Don't be so terribly cruel!
KATHERINE. No! Let's have the truth! People so wide apart don't love! Let me go!
MORE. In God's name, how can I help the difference in our faiths?
KATHERINE. Last night you used the word—bargain. Quite right. I meant to buy you. I meant to kill your faith. You showed me what I was doing. I don't like to be shown up as a driver of bargains, Stephen.
MORE. God knows—I never meant——
KATHERINE. If I'm not yours in spirit—I don't choose to be your— mistress.
MORE, as if lashed by a whip, has thrown up his hands in an attitude of defence.
KATHERINE. Yes, that's cruel! It shows the heights you live on. I won't drag you down.