"Confound you, Elise!"
"That's right, swear at me. Swear at me."
"I'm sorry I swore. But, hang it all, it's every bit as bad for me as it is for you."
"Worse, I fancy. You needn't think Miss Madden didn't see you, because she did."
"It's a pity Miss Madden didn't come in a little sooner."
"Sooner? I think she chose her moment very well."
"If she had heard the whole of our conversation I think she'd have realized there was something to be said for me."
"There isn't anything to be said for you. And until you've apologized for insulting me—"
"You've heard me apologize. As for insulting you, no decent woman, in the circumstances, ever tells a man his love insults her, even if she can't return it."
"And even if he's another woman's husband?"