"You'll say I'd no business to come if I feel like that. But I knew I wasn't hurting anybody but myself. I knew you were safe. There's never been anybody but Robert."
"Never. Never for a minute."
"I tell you I know that. I always have known it. And I understand it. What I can't understand is why, when that's that, you make it so hard for me."
"Do I make it hard for you?"
"Damnably."
"You poor thing. But you'll get over it."
"I'm not young enough to get over it. Does it look like getting over it?
It's been going on for twenty-two years."
"Oh come, not all the time, John."
"Pretty nearly. On and off."
"More off than on, I think."