"It's a preposterous convention that leaves all the truth-telling to the unhappy man."
"Still—there it is. We can't get over it."
"You could have got over it. It wasn't made for you."
"It was made for all women. And for one who has been wrecked by it there are millions who have been saved. It was made for me more than any of them."
"If you prefer other women's conventions to your own happiness."
"Would it have been happiness to have given my heart and my soul to somebody who had no use for them and showed it?"
"You insist that I showed it?"
"You showed me plainly that it wasn't my heart and my soul you wanted."
"There you're wrong. There was a moment—if you'd only known it."
"I did know."