"You know I do. How can you ask such a——"
"Do you love me?
"What!"
"Do you?"
"Billy, what on earth is——"
"Wait, please. Let me ask you again, Lillian. Are you honestly in love with me?"
"I don't know what you mean by suddenly and abruptly questioning—demanding——"
"Please answer."
"You have no right to doubt it. You know perfectly well what we have been to each other—even before——"
"What have we been?"