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He's not really a dandy, but neither is he careless about his appearance. He is not a libertine. He has a wife he loves, and two children. And yet he likes women. But he's never made a career as a "lady's man." He believes that that sort of career is a career of contemptible "substitution" and mo…

(The proprietress of the bar turns out a light. The record stops playing. They're in semi-darkness. The late but eluctable hour when the cafes close is fast approaching. They both close their eyes, as if seized by a feeling of modesty. The well-ordered world has thrown them out, for their adventure…

SHE (softly, as if in an aside): What is your wife like?

HE (purposefully): Beautiful. I'm a man who's happy with his wife.

(Pause.)

SHE: So am I. I'm a woman who's happy with her husband.

(This exchange charged with real emotion, which the ensuing moment covers.)

HE: You were bored in a way that makes men want to know a woman.