MRS. JUNO. I'm sorry. I thought you knew.

GREGORY. You thought I was a libertine?

MRS. JUNO. No: of course I shouldn't have spoken to you if I had
thought that. I thought you liked me, but that you knew, and
would be good.

GREGORY [stretching his hands towards her breast]. I thought the
burden of being good had fallen from my soul at last. I saw
nothing there but a bosom to rest on: the bosom of a lovely woman
of whom I could dream without guilt. What do I see now?

MRS. JUNO. Just what you saw before.

GREGORY [despairingly]. No, no.

MRS. JUNO. What else?

GREGORY. Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted: Trespassers Will Be
Prosecuted.

MRS. JUNO. They won't if they hold their tongues. Don't be such a
coward. My husband won't eat you.

GREGORY. I'm not afraid of your husband. I'm afraid of my
conscience.

MRS. JUNO [losing patience]. Well! I don't consider myself at all
a badly behaved woman; for nothing has passed between us that was