"Do you, you of all people, tie me down to that?"
He laughed. "Why not I?"
"Because it was you who told me not to keep back. You told me not to live alone. Don't you remember?"
He remembered. It was in the days when he first knew her.
"I did. Because you ran to the other extreme then. You were terrified of life."
"Because I was a woman. You told me to be a woman!"
"Because I was the only man you knew. How you remember things."
"That comes of living alone. I've never really forgotten anything you ever said to me. It's where I score."
"You had nobody but me to talk to then, if you remember."
"No. Nobody but you."