(repelled)

I didn’t mean it like that. Janet, don’t laugh. Of course, I’m glad if you don’t care any more. At least, I suppose I ought to be glad. It would have been dreadful if you had gone on caring all these years and I not known. But did you?

JANET

No, Monty, I didn’t. You may set your mind at rest.

MONTY

You’re sure?

JANET

Quite. I had too many other things to think of.

MONTY

Do you mean that beastly shop?