"Poor Dora. Perhaps we have been rather brutal to her. She's good for another five years."
"Only five years? And what will she do then?"
"Oh, she'll be all right. She'll rouge a bit, and powder a bit, and dress like anything. You needn't be unhappy about Dora. I can tell you Dora isn't going to be unhappy about you. Unhappiness would be extremely unbecoming to her, and she knows it. It isn't particularly becoming to any woman. You would be less damaged by it than most perhaps."
"You've never seen me unhappy."
"I hope to God I never shall."
"You needn't be afraid, Wilfrid, you never will."
"I wish," she said presently, "I wish you liked Dora Nicholson."
"I do like her."
"I wish you liked her as much as me."