"_I_ know...." and then suddenly she began to speak very fast.
"Don't you see ?--_can't_ you see ?--that I don't marry Gurnard for what he is in that sense, but for what he is in the other.

It isn't a marriage in your sense at all.

And ...

and it doesn't affect you ...
don't you _see_?
We have to have done with one another, because ...
because...." I had an inspiration.
"I believe," I said, very slowly, "I believe ...

you _do_ care...." She said nothing.
"You care," I repeated.
She spoke then with an energy that had something of a threat in it.