"What's the use of asking me? You know!"
"No, I don't think I do.... Are you fond enough of me to desire everything for my good?"
"Yes!"
"Even at the sacrifice of yourself?"
"Yes!"
"Well, don't you think it's for my ultimate good as a married woman that you shouldn't try to make love to me?"
"What the—Beatrice, don't torment me!"
"I don't want to, but you must see how impossible it is, Tommy. You can't go on talking this way to me."
"Why not?"
"Why, because I'm married, obviously! Such things are—well, they simply aren't done!"