Good heavens, I'm a man like any other. I have passions as other men have.
John.
[Gravely.] My dear Basil, I wouldn't venture to judge you. But I think it's rather late in the day to set up for a moralist.
Basil.
D'you think I've not regretted what I did? It's easy enough afterwards to say that I should have resisted. The world would be a Sunday School if we were all as level-headed at night as we are next morning.
John.
[Shaking his head.] After all, it's only a very regrettable incident due to your youth and—want of innocence.
Basil.
[With vehement seriousness.] I may have acted like a cur. I don't know. I acted as I suppose every other man would. But now I have a plain duty before me, and, by God, I mean to do it.
John.