And now you begin making love, and stuff of that kind.

Pray let us agree to forget all about it, and remain friends as before." "You need not be anxious about our future relations: I shall not embarrass you with my society again.

I hoped to find you a woman capable of appreciating a man's passion, even if you should be unable to respond to it.

But I perceive that you are only a girl, not yet aware of the deeper life that underlies the ice of conventionality." "That is a very good metaphor for your own case," said Marian, interrupting him.

"Your ordinary manner is all ice, hard and chilling.
One may suspect that there are depths beneath, but that is only an additional inducement to keep on the surface." "Then even your amiability is a delusion! Or is it that you are amiable to the rest of the world, and reserve taunts of coldness and treachery for me ?" "No, no," she said, angelic again.