"That Fate isn't going to give me what I want. I don't want you, Pip. I want Dicky. And if you loved me—you'd let me alone."
"Tell me to go,—and I won't come back."
"Not ever?"
"Never."
She weakened. "But I don't want you to go away. You see, you are my good friend, Pip."
She should not have let him stay. She knew that. She found it necessary to apologize to Richard. "You see, Pip cares an awful lot."
Richard had little sympathy. "He might as well take his medicine and not hang around you, Eve."
"If you would hang around a little more perhaps he wouldn't."
"I am very busy. You know that."
His voice was stern. "If I am a busy husband, will you make that an excuse for having Pip at your heels?"