It's rubbing the bloom off you.

You let a man who is married come too close to you--you betray enough curiosity concerning him to do it.

A drifting woman does that sort of thing, but why do you cut your cables?
Good Lord, Geraldine, it's a fool business--permitting a man an intimacy----" "More harmless than his wife permits you!" she retorted.
"That is not true." "You are supposed to lie about such things, aren't you ?" she said, reddening to the temples.

"Oh, I am learning your rotten code, you see--the code of all these amiable people about me.

You've done your part to instruct me that promiscuous caresses are men's distraction from ennui; Rosalie evidently is in sympathy with that form of amusement--many men and women among whom I live in town seem to be quite as casual as you are....