Why do you wish to force me to do what I believe would be a wrong to you?
Can't you respect my disreputable convictions ?" "They are theories--not convictions--" "Oh, Kelly, I'm so tired of hearing you say that!" "I should think you would be, you little imp of perversity!" "I am....

And I wonder how I can love you just as much, as though you were kind and reasonable and--and minded your own business, dear." "Isn't it my business to tell the girl to whom I'm engaged what I believe to be right ?" "Yes; and it's her business to tell _you_" she said, smiling; and put her arms higher so that they slipped around his neck for a moment, then were quickly withdrawn.
"What a thoroughly obstinate boy you are!" she exclaimed.

"We're wasting such lots of time in argument when it's all so very simple.

Your soul is your own to develop; mine is mine.

_Noli, me tangere_!" But he was not to be pacified; and presently she went away to pour their tea, and he followed and sat down in an armchair near the fire, brooding gaze fixed on the coals.
They had tea in hostile silence; he lighted a cigarette, but presently flung it into the fire without smoking.
She said: "You know, Louis, if this is really going to be an unhappiness to you, instead of a happiness beyond words, we had better end it now." She added, with an irrepressible laugh, partly nervous, "Your happiness seems to be beyond words already.