John: This is becoming too personal.

Frankie: You began it.

John: Somebody asked me to rearrange the world; and I’m doing it. I certainly wouldn’t sweep away all existing marriage laws all at once——

Colin: When are we coming to what you would do?

John: I should go all out for a much larger tolerance; I should allow certain special relationships, within the present system, to be open and decent and honourable.

Frankie: There is something else.

Gwen: What?

Frankie: ... It’s difficult to say.

Colin: Good heavens! Somebody’s found something they can’t say. It must be awful.

Gwen: Go on, Frankie.