"… And all that would go. Everything would go….
"… But our way—nothing could end it."
"I can see one thing that would end it. If you found somebody you really cared about."
"Oh that—You mean if I—It wouldn't happen, and if it did, what difference would it make?"
"You mean you'd come back?"
"I mean I shouldn't have left you."
"Still, you'd have gone to her. John, I don't think I could bear it."
"You wouldn't have to bear it long. It wouldn't last."
"Why shouldn't it?"
"Because—You don't understand, Charlotte—if I know a woman wants me, it makes me loathe her."