.

.

For a month, two days, or half an hour ?" said the nervous gentleman, with special irritation.
"No, permit me, you evidently are not talking of the same thing." "Yes, I am talking absolutely of the same thing.

Of the preference for one man or one woman to the exclusion of all others.

But I ask: a preference for how long ?" "For how long?
For a long time, for a life-time sometimes." "But that happens only in novels.