He took an impatient turn up and down the room.
“No. But you can’t maintain a honeymoon attitude all your life, my dear. I don’t suppose we feel the same way towards each other as we did then.”
That hurt. “But why don’t we?”
“Why, we’re older; people’s emotions cool naturally.”
“But they shouldn’t if they love one another.”
“There you go, you see. You want to have everything your way. You want to force things. You don’t let life be natural, Cecily. You’re too romantic.”
The tears in her eyes only irritated him. He went on, thinking that it might be as well to have it out with her.
“I don’t want to be unkind, but you have the most artificial view of things sometimes. You can’t tolerate any thing or person that isn’t on a pedestal.”
“No, it isn’t that, Dick. I just hate to see things slip into cheapness.”