Evelyn [pondering]. Still, if I really oughtn't to be here.... Do you think I oughtn't to be here?
Cecil. I don't think I should go into that if I were you. Sensible people think of what they want to do, not of what they ought to do, otherwise they get confused. And then of course they do the wrong thing.
Evelyn. But if I do what I oughtn't, I generally find I'm sorry for it afterwards.
Cecil. Not half sorry as you would have been if you hadn't done it. In this world the things one regrets are the things one hasn't done. For instance, if I hadn't spoken to you a week ago here in the wood I should have regretted it all my life.
Evelyn. Would you?
[He nods.]
Really and truly?
Cecil [nods]. Really and truly.
[He lays his hand on hers for a moment, she lets it rest there. Cuckoo calls loudly once or twice—she draws her hand away.]
Evelyn. There's the cuckoo.