Cobbett.
If there’s anything I can do, I’d like awfully to do it if you’d let me.
Grace.
No, whatever happens no one can help me but myself.
Cobbett.
I shouldn’t have played the fool if I’d thought you were going to take things so much to heart.
Grace.
[Ironically.] That’s the nuisance of women, isn’t it? They will make an affair of what’s really only an episode.
Cobbett.
You have a way of saying things that makes one feel an awful bounder. After all, one can’t help falling in love, and one’s not a blackguard because one falls out of it.