"Not in that way. Why shouldn't we be friends?"
"That's nonsense. Friendship between a man and a woman? That's one of those notions which you picked up, I dare say, at Driebergen, among neurotic people. Between a man and a woman there's only ... yearning. I want you and I am in hell because I haven't got you."
"Yes, it's always ... that," she said; and she thought of Addie.
"Oh, if you would only go with me ... out of this."
"Would that make me happy?"
"I should live for you entirely. I have a little money...."
"That would make me happy, would it? To leave my husband, to leave my children?"
"Your husband, your children? But I should be there!"
"Yes, but...."
"You don't care for me."