MAN. I prefer to hold it.
MAR. But as the basket is mine—(goes to take it.)
MAN. (retaining it) And you are mine—
MAR. You know my answer to that.
MAN. My dearest, in the days when our great, great uncle was a corsair—
MAR. Spare me the recital of his feats.
MAN. He would have made short shrift of your little sins of hesitancy and doubt.
MAR. Hesitancy!
MAN. He would have seized you, body and soul. He would have understood no denial. He would have seen no sense in it.
MAR. A corsair you called him. Another name for thief.