"But you nearly ruined your career for the sake of that pattern?"
"Oh, well!" he laughed.
"Which career?"
"Oh, don't!" he said, evasively. "Tell me, what do you advise me to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"Shall I marry her?"
"I am against all marriage, between cultivated people."
She wanted to repeat some of her phrases, but thought to herself, why? He would not understand them. He looked at her profoundly, with his carbuncle eyes:
"So you are in favour of free love?"
"Sometimes. Not always. Between cultivated people."