November 22 + 

He: “Have a cigarette? I enjoy lighting your cigarettes.” + 

She: “I don’t know how to smoke properly.” + 

He: “You smoke only as you could.” + 

She: “How’s that?” + 

H.: “Gracefully, of course.” + 

S.: “Do you think I like pretty things being said to me?” + 

H.: “Why not, if they are true. Flattery is when you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful. Have you so poor an opinion of yourself to think all I say of you is flattery?” + 

S.: “Yes. I am only four bare walls⁠—with nothing inside.” + 

H.: “What a deliciously empty feeling that must be.⁠ ⁠… But I don’t think you’re so simple as all that. You bewilder me sometimes.” + 

S.: “Why?” + 

H.: “I feel like Sindbad the Sailor.” + 

S.: “Why?” + 

H.: “Because I’m not George Meredith.” The title of “husband” frightens me. + 