"Then, I don't think that I should be in the least an asset to Blair, Hayward, and Bennet. Even—"
"I'm not asking you to marry Blair, Hayward, and Bennet."
"Even the proof that I didn't beat Betty Kane won't free me of being 'the woman in the Kane case'; an uncomfortable sort of wife for the senior partner. It wouldn't do you any good, Robert, believe me."
"Marion, for heaven's sake! Stop—"
"Then, you have Aunt Lin and I have my mother. We couldn't just park them like pieces of chewing-gum. I not only love my mother, I like her. I admire her and enjoy living with her. You, on the other hand, are used to being spoiled by Aunt Lin— Oh, yes, you are! — and would miss far more than you know all the creature comforts and the cosseting that I wouldn't know how to give you-and wouldn't give you if I knew how," she added, flashing a smile at him.
"Marion, it is because you don't cosset me that I want to marry you. Because you have an adult mind and a—"
"An adult mind is very nice to go to dinner with once a week, but after a lifetime with Aunt Lin you would find it a very poor exchange for good pastry in an uncritical atmosphere."
"There is one thing you haven't even mentioned," Robert said.
"What is that?"
"Do you care for me at all?"