GEORGE. He must hate having to be away so much as he's been lately. The death of that man Gregson has upset things rather.
DAISY. [_Smiling._] I wish I could thank Gregson for the good turn he did _us_ by dying at the psychological moment.
GEORGE. [_Dryly._] I don't suppose that was his intention.
DAISY. Except for that Harry would have insisted on going to Chung-king. Now there's no possibility of that for at least a year.
DAISY. We've got a year before us, George, a whole year. And in a year anything can happen.
GEORGE. [_Gravely._] Do you never have any feeling that we've behaved rottenly to Harry?
DAISY. I? I've been happy for the first time in my life. At last I've known peace and rest. Oh, George, I'm so grateful for all you've given me! In these three months you've changed the whole world for me. I thought I couldn't love you more than I did. I think every day my love grows more consuming.
GEORGE. [_With a sigh._] I've never known a single moment's happiness.
DAISY. That's not true. When I've held you in my arms I've looked into your eyes and I've seen.
GEORGE. Oh, I know. There've been moments of madness in which I forgot everything but that I loved you. I'm a low rotten cad. No one could despise me more than I despise myself. I've loved you so that there was room for nothing else in my soul. Waking and sleeping you've obsessed me.
GEORGE. And I've hated myself for loving you. I've hated you for making me love you. I've struggled with all my might and a hundred times I thought I'd conquered myself and then the touch of your hand, the softness of your lips--I was like a bird in a cage, I beat myself against the bars and all the time the door was open and I hadn't the will to fly out.
DAISY. [_Tenderly._] Oh, darling, why do you make yourself unhappy when happiness lies in the hollow of your hand?
GEORGE. Have you never regretted anything?
GEORGE. You're stronger than I am. I'm as weak as dishwater. It's funny that it should have taken me all these years to find it out. I was weak from the beginning. But I was weakest of all that day. I was distracted, I thought you were dying, I forgot everything except that I loved you.
DAISY. [_With passion._] Oh, my sweetheart! Don't you remember how, late in the night, we went outside the temple and looked at the moonlight on the walls of the Forbidden City? You had no regrets then.