But you won't.

You have imagination.

You've seen me in every stage of what I call the Great Emotion.

But you've not treated me well, Joan, or taken me seriously, and this is the one serious thing of my life." He was still under control, although his voice had begun to shake and his hands to tremble.

She could do nothing but wait for him to go on.
The crickets and the frogs filled in the short silence.
"And now it's come to this.