- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: It was when I saw you making the boats with the children, and playing in the stream, that I realised.
- D.H. Lawrence: What did you realise?
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: That I loved you.
- D.H. Lawrence: I know.
- [pause]
- D.H. Lawrence: Prove it, Frieda.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: How?
- D.H. Lawrence: Make's a cup o' tea.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: Lawrence, would you like to stay with me tonight?
- D.H. Lawrence: Here?
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: Yes.
- D.H. Lawrence: I'd like that very much.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: Good.
- D.H. Lawrence: But I won't.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: O why not?
- D.H. Lawrence: Because I know the difference between appetite and desire.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: You must explain.
- D.H. Lawrence: It's the difference between wanting to go to bed with a woman, and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: You mean, you want to spend the rest of your life with me?
- D.H. Lawrence: You say you love me. I say you're the most wonderful woman in the world. It's obvious.
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: Then it's obvious we've got to go to bed together!
- D.H. Lawrence: Nooo...
- Frieda von Richtofen Weekley: You're a puritan!
- D.H. Lawrence: Is there something wrong with that?