[After a pause.] No.
John.
[Passionately.] Then, by God, you have no right to marry her. A man has no right to marry a woman for pity. It's a cruel thing to do. You can only end by making yourself and her entirely wretched.
Basil.
I can't break the poor girl's heart.
John.
You don't know what marriage is. Even with two people who are devoted to one another, who have the same interests and belong to the same class, it's sometimes almost unbearable. Marriage is the most terrible thing in the world unless passion makes it absolutely inevitable.
Basil.
My marriage is absolutely inevitable—for another reason.
John.