Colin: Yes! pray God, yes! Look here, I love you. Please understand that. Quite certainly. With everything in me, for always.
Gwen (very gently, to herself): Oh, Colin!
Colin: I’ve been very lonely; with everything I wanted—unhappy. You’ve changed all that. I want everything now, for you.
Gwen (softly): It’s a miracle!
Colin: It’s a fact. But I know what I want; d’you see? ... that’s going to give me the power to get it—for both of us. All this experimenting business. It’s no good. I’ve finished with it!
Gwen: You’ve finished with it!
Colin: Yes.
[She gives a little laugh.
Colin: Now, look here, Gwen; people who shilly-shally round and get someone in their lives, and then look round and wonder whether someone else wouldn’t give them a fuller life! I’ve no use for it. I know a good deal about life.
Gwen: You mean you’ve had a lot of ... of lovers?