TEDDIE. [_Impatiently, but with himself, rather than with ELIZABETH._] Don't be idiotic, Elizabeth. I'm not going to tell you that I can't live without you and a lot of muck like that. You know that you mean everything in the world to me. [_Almost giving it up as a bad job._] Oh, my God! ELIZABETH. [_Her voice faltering._] D'you think there's anything you can say to me that I don't know already? TEDDIE. [_Desperately._] But I haven't said a single thing I wanted to. I'm a business man and I want to put it all in a business way, if you understand what I mean. ELIZABETH. [_Smiling._] I don't believe you're a very good business man. TEDDIE. [_Sharply._] You don't know what you're talking about. I'm a first-rate business man, but somehow this is different. [_Hopelessly._] I don't know why it won't go right. ELIZABETH. What are we going to do about it? TEDDIE. You see, it's not just because you're awfully pretty that I love you. I'd love you just as much if you were old and ugly. It's you I love, not what you look like. And it's not only love; love be blowed! It's that I _like_ you so tremendously. I think you're such a ripping good sort. I just want to be with you. I feel so jolly and happy just to think you're there. I'm so awfully _fond_ of you. ELIZABETH. [_Laughing through her tears._] I don't know if this is your idea of introducing a business proposition. TEDDIE. Damn you, you won't let me. ELIZABETH. You said "Damn you." TEDDIE. I meant it. ELIZABETH. Your voice sounded as if you meant it, you perfect duck! TEDDIE. Really, Elizabeth, you're intolerable. ELIZABETH. I'm doing nothing. TEDDIE. Yes, you are, you're putting me off my blow. What I want to say is perfectly simple. I'm a very ordinary business man. ELIZABETH. You've said that before. TEDDIE. [_Angrily._] Shut up. I haven't got a bob besides what I earn. I've got no position. I'm nothing. You're rich and you're a big pot and you've got everything that anyone can want. It's awful cheek my saying anything to you at all. But after all there's only one thing that really matters in the world, and that's love. I love you. Chuck all this, Elizabeth, and come to me. ELIZABETH. Are you cross with me? TEDDIE. Furious. ELIZABETH. Darling! TEDDIE. If you don't want me tell me so at once and let me get out quickly. ELIZABETH. Teddie, nothing in the world matters anything to me but you. I'll go wherever you take me. I love you. TEDDIE. [_All to pieces._] Oh, my God! ELIZABETH. Does it mean as much to you as that? Oh, Teddie! TEDDIE. [_Trying to control himself._] Don't be a fool, Elizabeth. ELIZABETH. It's you're the fool. You're making me cry. TEDDIE. You're so damned emotional. ELIZABETH. Damned emotional yourself. I'm sure you're a rotten business man. TEDDIE. I don't care what you think. You've made me so awfully happy. I say, what a lark life's going to be! ELIZABETH. Teddie, you are an angel. TEDDIE. Let's get out quick. It's no good wasting time. Elizabeth.